Karina

I re-wrote chapter 37 as it was directionless.  I then stenoed chapter 38, which is also not great.  Again, all done before “needing” my warm-up blog.  Chapter 38 is about my connection between the smell of jasmine flowers and Beirut, unexpectedly one of my top three favourite places to visit.  There is likely to be […]

Chapter 37 is fairly badly written but it was stenoed before this blog so this post is just to highlight that there are now only three chapters remaining to steno and that chapter 37 was about fish tacos in Mexico.  This photo is of unbelievably good ceviche for about 75p.

Having stenoed chapter 36 this morning, another pre-blog chapter written, I have just worked out that my August target of writing 15 chapters has been achieved, with half the month still to go.  That means there are only four more chapters to write and then the steno element of this writing process will be finished

Fuelled, possibly, by half a bag of “Sour Squirms” (sour sugar-coated jelly sweets) and stenoing while still on a squirm-high (novices; they say four sweets is one serving.  As if), I have stenoed not one but two more chapters.  The blog is redundant today, I am all about over-achieving without the blog as a helpful

It took me until about 5pm to start stenoing chapter 32 about Tellaro in Italy, but then I was on a roll so kept going with chapter 33, which I decided would be about pineapples, specifically a boot full of pineapples pretty much thrown into the back of the vehicle I was sitting in with

Even though my 30s are the most recent decade of my life I’m writing about, of all four that was the decade it took me the longest to think of ten memory triggers to write about.  I think that the original ten I chose will change as I recall more things that I think are