Victory in the face of finals!I have completed the knit headband (one of my two secret projects, in case you were keeping score), and it’s glory is featured above!Having other projects like that one really keeps me sane in the face of other more overwhelming tasks, like art projects and essays. I am occasionally asked […]
(click for a larger version!) There’s nothing like completing something to make a week complete, and this week resembled a stress ball like no other, let me tell you.I made good on four claims this week: finishing Phase 1 of Etsy preparation, making a micro-mini zine, emailing the zinesters that I have admired from afar […]
I feel that sometimes I stick my fingers in too many pies, but since it was Thanksgiving last week, I figured it can’t hurt to stick them in one more. I have had some really gorgeous knitted items for selling that have been hanging around my room since last year and I just haven’t had […]
Allow me to take the liberty of using this post as blatant self-congratulation. I won National Novel Writing Month, and this morning I really didn’t think it was possible. But, after some well-timed procrastination, in just this day alone, I wrote 15,000 words and FINISHED! Good luck to everyone that is still chugging along – […]
Whoops! This post is a little late, but I will still count it as a daily post because it’s the wee hours of the morning, which, in my head, are counted as the late hours of last night.Anyway, this post is about expanding your horizons and how it can be so very frustrating at times.Take […]
This is just a short post that’s going to roll in under the radar – I’ve been trying to furiously catch up on word count today, so I’ve written 3000+ words and have come up to 25,150. I need to be at 30,006 by tomorrow at midnight, so between then and now I have to […]
Today I worked on just about everything but NaNo, which I told myself that I was going to catch up on completely. I did not write one word all weekend and, as a consequence, have to write 6107 words at least by tonight’s end to be on track. I think I can do it, but […]
I have had a lot of embarrassing moments in my writing career.Looking back on it now, it seems that my childhood addiction was paper. I have half-finished or quarter-finished or even one-page-out-of-150 finished journals lying about my house, ones that have not been cracked open for years (fortunately, nowadays I am re-using that paper for […]
I can already tell that Wednesdays and Thursdays are going to be the hardest ones to keep up on NaNo. After returning to school and not having the entire day to gallavant off into novel land, I have been slammed with late hours and been mired in writer’s block.But, all is not lost. Pushing NaNo […]
(I carried this plant all the way back from Virginia) For everyone out there who feels like they’re drowning in word count: you are not alone.Today my roommate and I returned from Virginia to New York City. Our cumulative journey consisted of a 4.5 hour bus ride, a 30 minute cab ride at stomach-churning speeds, […]