Rix is having another prompt call!
Go inundate her with prompts!
Then tell a friend! Tell 10 friends! It’s like a prompt call chain letter!
Err, maybe I should cut back on the coffee
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Not being on the computer much, that’s for sure!
State of Nano: As of this morning, I have written 45,378 on my Addergoole, Year 9, 1st Semester piece. That, with previously written material (over 11.5K words, wow!) brings it to 11 chapters and some mini-interludes, which means that I’ll finish 12 chapters in just over 50K. Hopefully by the end of the weekend.
State of the garden: we bought another pepper plant (shoshito) and another tomato plant (pear-cherry). Also a cilantro, finally.
The squash are having fun, stretching out finally. The onions are being onions, ditto the leeks.
I have bean sprouts! And pea sprouts! and radish sprouts! (The sort in the garden dirt; I also have sprouts growing in a jar in the kitchen).
And last night I started planting a bag of salt potatoes that had gone to sprout.
State of the everything else: T has been cleaning out the loading ramp that came with the house – essentially a dirt ramp framed in railroad ties. We plan to use it as a planting bed.
After we get the safe out of it. O_O
And the dresser is very nearly done! I have to decide if I want to sand, smooth, and then 4th-coat the top, the sides and drawers are done, and the knobs will get here this week.
And … that explains, I think, the lack of anything else lately. If I owe you Giraffe Words, I apologize. When I hit 50 K, I will start working on the giraffeyness again!
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meeks is holding a Birthday Icon Sale!
You may recognize her work in my icons:
So, ah. Who should I ask for this time? Inclined to do something from Addergoole Year 9, but willing to take other suggestions! Decided!
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There will be a mini-Giraffe Call this month, but it shall not be until late – June 25th.
It will be on any one setting; what would you like?
Exceptions – not Aunt Family nor Addergoole, which are the most recently done and next to be done, respectively.
The July Mini-Giraffe Call shall be Addergoole Summer Camp on July 14th; this will kick off 52 days to 52 stories, a lead-up to my new serial, beginning on September 4th.
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I have been remiss in blogging lately! If you have noticed the camp-nano posts, you can easily see one reason why – I am trying hard to get 50K done by the 20th (the 21st is our 10-year wedding anniversary).
The other reason? Summer!
This weekend I finally got a portion of the garden put in – planted 7 tomato plants in 3 varieties, 7 hot pepper plants in 4 varieties (6 of 2 more to plant), basil in 2 varieties, sage, oregano, and beans. I weeded the carrot patch (apologies to Anne Bishop readers) and laid down weed cloth over the squash (well, around them), too.
And I got another coat of poly on the dresser and started painting it!
In terms of nano, I’m looking to get most of the first semester of Addergoole Year 9 completed: the series will cover, in 52 weeks, one year of the Addergoole school through the eyes of the twenty-some members of the Ninth Cohort.
Also: We got two new kittens. Their names are Oligarchy and Theocracy and they are 12 weeks old and beautiful.
And a link: Finally, a Home where you can enjoy the Post-apoc.
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rix_scaedu raised a question in alpha-reading the upcoming Addergoole-Year-9, and I never did answer it well in the original series – “should it be crew, or Crew?”
I’m going to stretch that out to – what things should I capitalize?
* Each word in a Working?
* the word Working?
* Bond? This one I hesitate on, because it looks to me too much like the Blood Bond in White Wolf.
Things that I know are always cap:
* Keeping, Kept (not sure on Owning, Owned), Belonging.
* Law
* references to a position as per the Law – Mentor, Student, Mother, Child (but only in that context)
I seem to have settled on capitalizing Daeva, Mara, Grigori.
Urg!
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I have reached 25,000 words on my Nano-in-June “novel,” the first “semester” of Addergoole Year Nine!!
Halfway there <3
Icon by Merit Badger, who you should totally check out
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