I’m having a bit of a bad morning. I’ve been really looking forward to Sock Wars III. It’s a silly game where you knit a pair of socks to ‘kill’ your victim with, then they send you their socks and you proceed to knit away and try to kill their victim too, and so on… Continue reading 70272
Author: JulieD
Fave Pic So Far and a Worry
This is a great picture of someone’s weaponry. AND it turns out there was an email yesterday that I didn’t get until this morning (my fault) that said to make sure you had registered fully. I don’t remember choosing a nom de guerre or entering my shoe size (which is not to say I didn’t… Continue reading Fave Pic So Far and a Worry
My Deadly Yarn
The yarn and I are ready.
Sock Wars III
Waiting….for my dossier. Impatiently. One person has posted in Ravelry forums that she has her dossier, but she’s the only one so far…
Writing Spurt
I’ve just finished my second book by Tasha Alexander (her first) and after I did, I read her author’s not on writing the book. It starts: One day, while I was engrossed in Dorothy L. Sayers’s wonderful Gaudy Night, a sentence leapt off the page at me: If you are once sure what you do… Continue reading Writing Spurt
U is for Unreasonable
Do you ever have the sure and unsupported certainty that someone just doesn’t like you? A mother of one of the children in Gregor’s class has never been anything but scrupulously polite to me, and I’ve never done anything to offend her. And she seems like someone I might have stuff in common with: she… Continue reading U is for Unreasonable
Floral Therapy
It’s such a rubbish day today (cold, rainy, heavy gray clouds) that I felt I needed to post some pictures I took last week. Spring has sprung around here. Overnight my cherry tree went from having tiny promising buds, to having not just a flower, not just SOME flowers, but a profusion of flowers. It… Continue reading Floral Therapy
NaBlo(sortof)PoMo
So, apparently weekends are my downfall when it comes to blogging (or writing) daily. And I think I’m OK with that. Yesterday was spent shouting at the son and heir, mostly, and playing board games. Today has been…well, very similar. There was an outing and a thwarted plot to go to Strasburg, and some quality… Continue reading NaBlo(sortof)PoMo
Three Letters: D.N.A and Creativity
Happy Birthday, DNA Structure! Today, in 1953, James D. Watson and Francis Crick had a little article called Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid published in the scientific journal Nature. And the controversy hasn’t stopped since. Of course, they didn’t pluck this idea from the ether. They built on the… Continue reading Three Letters: D.N.A and Creativity
F is for Framework
So I took all my ideas, the ones that have been buzzing around in my head for a year (or is it two?) since I first had the audacious thought that I might have a novel in me after all, and started putting them down today. Not that I haven’t written a lot of it… Continue reading F is for Framework