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Wordsearch puzzle

I created and uploaded a word search puzzle to my website last night. 56 words in total. I’d created one before as a test but made a mistake by putting a space in between words which doesn’t work and I couldn’t delete it afterwards. It’s really difficult to type a two-word clue and not hit the space bar between the words.

Click on the first letter, drag the mouse across to the last letter and click again. If you’re right, the letters will highlight in green and the word will be crossed out on the list below. If you’re wrong, the word will highlight in red. Like the jigsaws, it’s not linked to the website right now but it can be accessed at…

http://www.melanierobertson-king.com/wordsearch.html

The words/letters in the puzzle itself aren’t circled but this is the best word search puzzle generator I’ve found so far.

Good luck! Please leave a comment letting me know what your thoughts are.

Fun Stuff

I’m going to add a “Fun Stuff” area to my website. One of the things I’ll be adding is jigsaw puzzles of some of the photos from my photo gallery pages. Not sure what else will be going up there yet, maybe some “Free” short stories, crossword puzzles or word search puzzles.

Like I said… Fun Stuff!

When I get it finished, I’ll post the news here so keep checking back.

My New Toy

Ain’t she purdy?

Picked her up tonight after work. Think I’m going to call her Black Beauty but not sure yet.

I have heard the phrase “once you go black you never go back” so we’ll see how true it ends up being.

Oh baby oh baby…

Productive Day

I can honestly say I’ve gotten more writing done today than in a very long time. I have my novel, Sarah’s Gift, broken up into 3 chapter files. I’m happy to say, I finally got out of the chapters 1-3 file today, worked through the addition of scenes in chapters 4-6 and am now in chapters 7-9. Woo hoo!!!

Can I do it?

This is the subject of the next 250 word prompt from my local writers’ group. I’ve got an idea in mind so I’ll see what comes of it when the time comes to write it.

Have a couple of other writing priorities that need attending to first.

Contest mentioned earlier

I’ve found out the deadline has been extended to July 1st. Can I do it? I’m thinking the first 25-30 pages of the manuscript are pretty clean (just need to get rid of some “notes to self”) so it’s just a matter of working on the synopsis. Depending on how long it ends up being, is how many pages of manuscript I’ll be able to include.

We’ll see what happens. I’ve got until Thursday.

Writers’ Group Meeting

It was good to see everyone in the formal setting of our group. Not that it’s formal by any means. There were a few missing faces and one that was able to come back for today.

Our guest speaker was Carol Williams, author of Emma Field Book 1 and Book 2. She gave an interesting talk on the role of women over the years – especially those who dared to break the “mould” and attempt to change things as far back as the 1840s.