After my weekend of reading…

I’m back writing now after a few days of having my face stuck in someone else’s book rather than my own. It was actually quite refreshing.

Now, I’ve not gone back to my own manuscript but I did write a review on Night Watcher and have uploaded it to amazon.com. In addition, I’ve sent it on to Brian Henry to include on his Quick Brown Fox blog.

So we’ll see what tonight brings…

 

Chris Longmuir’s latest release

Now available at Amazon.com for their Kindle reader (or Kindle apps for other devices – ipod, iphone, BlackBerry, ipad etc) – Night Watcher by Chris Longmuir. I downloaded it last night (Kindle app for the ipad – which works great).

http://www.amazon.com/Night-Watcher-ebook/dp/B004RCWYQK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AZC9TZ4UC9CFC&s=books&qid=1299931203&sr=1-1

Congratulations Chris!

Now to get off this and go back to reading Night Watcher.

Last night’s progress on the writing front…

Nary a word written on my manuscript but I did manage to write 182 words for another photo prompt for my next writer’s meeting. Whether I finish it or not remains to be seen. I’ve already got two written and this current work-in-progress is extremely DRY! So I would have to re-write it anyway to make it more interesting rather than just the facts.

 

March snow storm…

Looking more and more like March is coming in like a lion… bodes even better for the end of the month when I’m off on a weekend away and a Brian Henry workshop.

I took this last night just after 8:30 when it was coming down like crazy. And now it’s raining.

Mother Nature is very confused.

No writing done…

Not Monday after work, nor Tuesday either. That’s not good. Two days and no writing. Have to get my butt in gear and get back at it.

I ordered two books from Amazon.ca last night so maybe they’ll help me get back on track. Almost ordered a third but something about the cover niggled at my brain so I checked through my stash of books that I have no room on my bookcases for and sure enough, it was there so it was promptly deleted from the list.

I really need to catalog my books. It’s bad enough I purchase duplicate copies of magazines from time to time.

 

Sunday’s progress

Well after getting up early this morning, seeing the snow removal grader get stuck and generally wasting time with assorted other Internet activities and mundane chores like laundry, I managed 1243 words on my manuscript. Yeah!!!

Thought I’d seen everything… until this morning

This morning, the grader that was out to do snow removal slid got stuck on our street on the hill. It was hilarious to watch the       operator trying to back up and get free.

Unfortunately, by the time I ran in the house and grabbed my BlackBerry, it was unstuck and off on its merry way. And since I was in my pyjamas, I couldn’t stay outside too long.

If you look closely, you can see the blades to the right of the vehicles parked on the street.

A little bit of entertainment for an otherwise nasty day weather-wise.

 

Snowy Sunday morning

It’s snowing and blowing here this morning. Should make for interesting walking/driving out there. Yesterday, it poured rain all day and then in the evening it changed to freezing rain. I don’t know what time it started to snow, only that it was doing it when I got up about 6:00 to put the alarm dog out. Every now and then, it blows so hard I can barely see across the street.

 

 

My Scottish roots and writing by Melanie Robertson-King