March Challenge – Word Count!

March is going to be an exciting month – I have lots to look forward to and lots to keep me busy – which means that it is, in my eyes, the perfect month to set myself a writing challenge. I want to have written at least 3,000 words on my current WIP by the end of the month. Really, that isn’t much and combined with my Lent Project challenge it should be easily attainable.

My aim is this – if I can get myself into enough of a habit to write when I’m busy then I should be able to get back into my writing properly, whatever the weather. And then I might start finishing writing things as well as finishing reading things like I have been recently.

I set myself the challenge of reading 30 books this year, maybe, you never know, I might manage to write one too.

Fingers crossed.

Carole’s Lent Project – Challenge 2

Today is the 11th day of Lent, which means it is time to start my second Lent Challenge.

For the last ten days I have read a new poem every day – everything from A. E. Housman and random poems online to the following poem written for me by my brother and his friend between turns during our Monday night snooker session!

For the next ten days I am going to write 150 words a day on my WIP. Any 150, even if they are rubbish that I slash out at a later date – a first draft is a first draft for a reason and I just need to get back into the habit of writing regularly and 150 words is nothing – this blog post is going to be about 150 words easily and it’s taken me all of ten minutes to bash out.

Fingers crossed I will get much more than my 150 a day written and my WIP will slowly start feeling less like just another beginning and more like something I might even manage a middle of….or possibly an end, now that would be a novelty.

Off For A Run 300/365

I don’t think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging.  If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.  ~Rita Rudner

March Reading

I had 3 books on my February Reading list and one emergency ‘extra’ book…I read all of them AND two others (Shadow by Michael Morpurgo and The Iron King by Julie Kagawa). Go me!

This month I aim to finish/read the following:

Loose Girl by Kerry Cohen
An Impossible God by Frank Topping
Unearthly by Cynthia Hand

And if I finish all of those I will stick my nose in Daughter Of Smoke And Bone by Laini Taylor

February Challenge – SUCCESS!

At the beginning of February I set myself a fairly simple challenge and I quite successfully managed it.

Not only did I get my hair cut, I got brave and decided to go blonde for a change.

I utterly love it now I’ve gotten over the shock of the change!!

HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY ARTHUR! 299/365

May you live to be a hundred years
With one extra year to repent.
~Author Unknown

365 Project Catch-Up. Days 294-298

298 – Making Arthur’s Card

297 – All Worn Out!

296 – Book Boy!

295 – February in Surrey!

294 – Megan’s Hen-Do

New Look Carole! 293/365

I’m not offended by all the dumb-blonde jokes because I know that I’m not dumb.  I also know I’m not blonde. 

~Dolly Parton

Spectacular Sunset 292/365

Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven,
Curtain round the vault of heaven.
~Thomas Love Peacock

Bleak Walk Home 291/365

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths. 

~Etty Hillesum