Category Archives: Writing

Wednesday Woodworking – Wire and Paint

Here is this week’s progress on the cutting garden.  Heather has been busy painting and on Saturday we put on the wire.   We get a lot of wild animals wandering through our yard – in addition to cats we … Continue reading

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A Book to read – To Hunt a Sub

Instead of an essay this week I’d like to share a little news from fellow blogger, Jacqui Murray.  Her book, To Hunt a Sub is now available on Kindle.  She posts monthly over at Today’s Author, which is where I first … Continue reading

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Woes of Researching

I love researching facts and interesting points of obscure history.  It’s fun and useful, but it can also be a trap. It’s been both this week as I research and continue to add to my novel.  For example, at one … Continue reading

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Looking Back

I’ve been working my novel, so far I am up to about 8,500 words of notes.  Actual story, about 1,500.  At this rate I figure I’ll have to have about 200,000 words of notes with maybe a 50,000 word book.  … Continue reading

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