Karina

It’s 2.49pm, I’ve had the morning off thinking about writing.  I am now hoping to surprise myself with an unusual burst of afternoon activity ahead of a hoped-for trip to the cinema in the early evening.  You never know, I seem to work well with small windows of opportunity for greatness. The photo today is […]

I have both surprised and impressed myself that today’s chapter is 30, marking the last chapter of my 30s, the three-quarter mark.  I am also currently ahead of my target to write 15 chapters in August.  I ended up writing chapter 29 about karums, a Latvian sweet treat.  They are not my favourite food but

Chapter 29 will be the eighth of fifteen chapters for August, so I’m pretty much half way on 10th August.  I feel much more positive about reaching my target of 15 chapters this month now.  I don’t usually “make” myself write on weekends but I know there are days ahead when I probably won’t write

I will, I will, I will write this and move straight into stenoing chapter 28 rather than fannying around all day like I did yesterday.  In part, I am driven by the fact a friend is coming over for lunch and the likelihood of my writing a chapter in the evening is extremely slim. Today’s

I’m writing this just before making lunch, which would be fine were it not that I got up at 7am with a view to writing this post and a chapter.  Instead, I went out for a walk and coffee (smelling the jasmine flowers along the way; poetic) and spent an hour and a half working

I wrote chapter 26 this morning.  I was thinking to write the blog post but found myself in front of my steno instead of this laptop so it seemed silly to put it to one side in order to write this.  Chapter 26 is actually about my steno machine so I was probably a bit