Your character is a guest at this destination wedding. Are they early or late? Are they part of the bridal party or a wedding crasher? Set the scene and write for five minutes, and then as long as you want, on whatever you want.
Category: writing
Happy Valentine’s Day
I hope everyone is finding a bit of love today! I’m planning to squeeze in time with the people and things I love today. Especially my books! Reading a romance that’s fitting for the season. Moonlight Over Paris. I’ll have a review later this week.
JEH
Weekly Writing Prompt
Who is this woman? When is she living? What does she do every day? What does she eat for breakfast? What does she dream about? What is her deepest secret? Write for five minutes on paper.
Coffees, Words, and Update #16
Where to start? I’ve been so busy with writing events this week that I haven’t had much time left to blog, especially when trying to fit in my 1,000 words a day of drafting and some rewriting. I’m currently running right on target and I’m going to have to try to fit in a marathon day sometime soon to get my cushion up again. I like having a cushion. It keeps me comfortable. I attended multiple readings this week and a small seminar put on by the Saskatchewan Writer’s Guild, called Writing North. This years theme was Mutations, and it was interesting to hear so much discussion about change.
As a writer busy with rewrites, things are constantly changing for me. A word here, a sentence there, a whole chapters. Characters, colours, sounds. Everything changes during a rewrite. Nothing is sacred, everything is on the line. I have to say that I’m enjoying rewriting at the moment. When life is busy, or higher stress, I find rewriting easier than drafting because the pressure is off. Though sometimes I just have to draft to get some of the stress out. But mostly I like rewriting. This past week was pull of coffee and tea and all kinds of words. Here are a couple of my favourite pictures for the week, including the muffins I made tonight:
This week I’m going to announce more about my rewriting project. I’m so excited. It’s something that’s been sitting around my desk forever so it’s so fun to prepare it for the world!
I just tried to touch my laptop screen to autocorrect a word like I do on my tablet. I’m taking that as a sign that I’m too tired to continue tonight. You should see a bit more of me this week, as there aren’t any writing events. Talk later!
JEH
365K Words In a Year Update #14
Well, soon I will be sitting on a hot beach reading and writing away. I’m looking forward to my vacation, and will be taking a short break from blogging to enjoy myself. Don’t worry, I’ll be back for the second half of a January, and I’ll report on my word count then. So far, I’m still 12,000 words ahead of my goal.
Have a great week!
JEH
What I’m Reading: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Ruthfoss
I’ve decided to branch out a bit. I read a lot, and I read quite a bit of stuff that is not Young Adult. I’ve decided to blog more about books I read that I enjoy, though these won’t be included on my Young Adult Fiction Book review page.
To that end, I’ve spent the past month devouring The Name of the Wind by Patrick Ruthfoss. I LOVED this book. Yes, I love a lot of fantasy, it is probably my favourite genre, but there was just something so immersive about The Name of the Wind. This was the kind of book that I would read past my bed time, only to put it down and then dream about it. It had it’s own kind of plot-style as a story, within a story, and a central mystery which very little is revealed in the first book. Ruthfoss is a beautiful writer and I cannot wait to read the next book. In face, I bought book two as Christmas present for my husband, even though he hadn’t read the first one yet. So yeah, I really bought it for myself.
5/5 Stars.
JE
Happy New Year!
Season’s Greetings!
As I madly rush about on my last minute preparations for a week of holiday, I’m thinking of everything I have to be grateful for, and it’s a lot! But today I want to thank my blog readers, who make words worth it. Happy Holidays to everyone! May you find hot coffee, good books, and warm socks!
JEH
Weekly Writing Prompt
Use this image to begin a freewrite. Start with the description of the picture, and go wherever your mind wonders from there. Set your timer for ten minutes and write by hand.
On Coldness and Fantastic Beasts
It’s a grey, frigid day and I’m stuck in my office. I’ve been horrible at both writing and reading and I don’t even know where my time has gone this past week. I’m really hoping that December can be my reading month, but unless I find buried energy somewhere I may not get around to reading my last seven Goodreads Challenge books. The good news is that I did finish reading Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them this weekend before going to the movie. I was glad I did, since so many of the beast make an appearance. However, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is not a novel and is therefore nothing like the movie, which I found surprising and quite…dark. I really enjoyed reading the screenplay for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child this year, but I’m not sure reading the Fantastic Beasts screenplay is something I want to do. Especially since I’ve now seen the movie, and I’m pretty much a strictly book-before-movie kind of person.
My lunch today consisted of a takeout container of French Onion soup and an accompanying bun. It’s the kind of weather for soup. I will probably eat soup and only soup for the next four months…. at least at lunch time. 
It’s also that time of year for tea, so I better go make a cup of that right now, before the chill sets in. Tomorrow I will be posing a review of The Glittering Court, and I’m hoping to have two more up in the next week as well. Have you seen the FBWTFT movie yet?
JEH
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