Raven's View

NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow. Have an outline, and some scenes laid out. More planning needed but is enough to start at least. Also have some books to read for a book club, band practices, and a couple of TV series I'm following. 

• writing
  • Did a challenge for Flash Fiction Friday. Was to carry on from a story start, and make it scary. 
  • NaNoWriMo - outline and scenes ready for tomorrow morning. 
  • Short Stories - finished my page listing them all, with short excerpts. Added a bigger link on my home page, and will link to them from every story I post now.
  • Reading about writing - have several in my pile, need to decide which are now or later. Also, finally got a copy of Perfect Match, for book club on November 5th. Others waiting too, so will need to read by Friday night I think.
• health - boogying along. Will start #NaHeWriMo - National Healthy Writer Month to remind me to add the habit of daily exercise to the habit of daily writing in #NANoWriMo
• other - More Doc Watson, and hunkering down for the Frankenstorm. Which missed Ottawa.

This week's challenge from Flash Fiction Friday is to finish a story. The site says:

Just a quick check in for yesterday. Outlining goes well, did another Flash Fiction, and baled on Index Cards.

• writing
  • I did another Flash Fiction, for Terrible Minds. Challenge was to use 5 of 10 elements. Mine was a little strange, even foe me. But - fun to write.
  • NaNoWriMo - Went to local NaNoWriMo kickoff. Started off next to two people focused on each other and the books one of them did - hard to join in. Finally just got up and socialized with others - a nice crowd. Outline going well too, for novel, Agnes of Grimm. Gave up on Index Cards, as is restricted to ONLY the iPad - no PC links, no way to import to them. Back to Scrivener as main program, using corkboard on big screen to outline. Can compile outline to an RTF, cut/paste into Evernote for reference on iPad. Will use iPad to write scenes, one at a time. Not elegant, but works.
  • Short stories - started a separate page for them, with a link and few lines from beginning. Seventy total, gradually copying in. 
• health - walking, enjoying fall weather before Frankenstorm hits. Although will be diminished way up here in Ottawa.
• other - More Doc Watson episodes, plus went to nice social with other photography volunteers from Ottawa Folk Festival. 2012 still to be loaded by admin.

• A Mysterious Rabbit
• An Unborn Child
• A Missing Corpse
• A Broken Music Box
• An Ancient Curse
• A Half-Burned Notebook
• A Sudden Storm
• An Indestructible Tree
• A Venomous Creature
• An Impossible Doorway

• A Sudden Storm
• An Ancient Curse
• A Half-Burned Notebook
• An Unborn Child
• An Impossible Doorway

Story is 762 words.