Oh Nuts

Just in case you missed it in my last two posts but here is the link to the post that I did with an explanation of what #InstaWrimo is with days 1 thru 6, and then the posts with days 7 thru 12 and days 13 thru 18 respectively. So here are days 19 thru 24. Day 19: Overheard Dialogue  This is something that I said to my brother while at the aquarium today (the 19th). Me: Anthony look its electric!  Brother: *starts singing the Electric Slide* Day 20: Map (any kind)  This map is of the downtown area in a city near me and  I thought that it would work for my novel. Day 21: Outdoor Setting  While it's not the outdoor setting for my novel, I took these pictures in DC  back  in May when I was there visiting (Yes you get 2 pictures today). Day 22: Seasonal Changes  The trees haven't started changing yet, so I am using a picture that I took last year. Day 23: Mysterious Object  While the obj...

Here are days 13 thru 18 for the #InstaWrimo prep that I am doing to prepare for  NaNoWriMo  this year. To check out days 1 thru 6 and an explanation  here is the link  to the post and days 7 thru 12 here . Day 13: Working Title  My working title came about late one night while I was listening to the song  " Shadows of the Night " by Pat Benatar and I thought that it would make a good novel title. Day 14: Author signature  Normally my signature is a lot bigger than this, but I decided to try writing it smaller.  It still looks like a mess. Day 15: NaNo support crew  My NaNo support crew is all of my knitting projects because I can still be creative  while taking a break from writing. (Don't worry my family is my support crew as well) Day 16: Cast your main character(s)  I don't really have any actors etc. that I would want to portray my MCs but here  is what I imagine they l...

Here are days 7 thru 12 for the #InstaWrimo prep that I am doing to prepare for NaNoWriMo this year. To check out days 1 thru 6 and an explanation here is the link to the post. I will be sharing compilation posts every six days so that I am not bombarding and boring people by a post every day (it is also easier to do it that way). If you haven't followed me yet or didn't know I had it, my writing-related Instagram account is megan_writes3294. Day 7: Doodle or Scribble.  I did a little bit if doodling and scribbling today, though I cheated and used a stencil. In case it's hard to read, the words are the first line from the song "Shadows of the Night" by Pat Benatar. Day 8: Favorite Word. I know it's only supposed to be one favorite word, but I couldn't decide between which one was my most favorite so I included all three. Day 9: Lucky charm  My lucky charm is my dog because he is always there when you need a cuddle and som...

As you probably all know by now I have been doing NaNoWriMo for the past few years now and every year I write a post or two on it. Well here is this year's obligatory NaNo post, but I will be doing it a little bit differently today. found on Facebook The reason why it is a little different this year is that myself and the large NaNoWriMo Facebook group are doing #InstaWrimo, which can be found in the picture on the left. Today is day 6 of #instawrimo and I have managed to keep up with that so far, but we will see how well that works later in the month, especially when I get a new job. While I don't have the plot for my novel this year completely worked out I do have some ideas that I want to incorporate, I just need to iron them out and organize them. To go with the ideas that I have my working title is "Shadow of the Night." In the meantime, while I go figure out my novel ideas here are the pictures that I have taken so far for #instawrimo and I hope tha...

I have posted a randomly generated plots before, though I don't remember when I did it :P, I found the website, called Plot Generator , that I used and created another one and this one is just as funny as the first one. And while I don't remember when I shared the first one here, if I did that, I did remember to save it and print it out. Any how here is the randomly generated plot blurb that I did, using a fake/random author name. Photo by  Yeshi Kangrang  on  Unsplash Plymouth A Fiction Novel by grave walls "I'm going to need tattered robots,  big , tattered robots." The night of the snow storm changes everything for Daniel Cox, a 60-year-old mechanic from Plymouth. One moment, he is discussing stamps with his intuitive aunt, Stanley Bond; the next, watching with horror as arrogant pixies burgle each other. He knows these pixies came from Liverpool but he can't prove it - at least not without some tattered robots. The adorable, brave m...

I honestly don't remember exactly when I came up with the idea for this project, but once it showed up it didn't want to leave. Part of how this project came to me is that I had purchased the wood at Michael's for something else that ended up not working with the piece. Since I had already removed the packaging I couldn't return it so I had to think of something else to use it for. The picture I took and used. Again I don't remember how I exactly thought of this but I went with it anyhow. But since we have multiple stencils with the alphabet in different fonts on them I grabbed them out of the draw that they are stored in and then picked the one that I liked the best. After I traced the words onto the wood I plugged in the wood burner that we have and went to work burning the letters. With the wood burner it didn't take that long to do the letters and I like the way that they turned out. Before I actually did the letters I used a heart stencil on the ba...

This blanket started out as an idea that I based off of something similar that a friend of mine did. And the thought for this blanket came to me on Halloween of last year (2017) and I went with it though it took a little bit longer to actually form into a physical blanket. Since I wanted this to be a surprise for my sister and her husband, I knew that I wouldn't be able to make it all myself. So I enlisted the help of my grandma and some friends to make some squares for the blanket. I also made a bunch for the blanket as well don't worry ;). Originally it was supposed to be finished in time for my sister's bridal shower back in April, but that didn't happen. The day before the shower I went over to my grandma's house to start sewing the squares together so that my sister wouldn't be able to see it. As my grandma and I were laying out the squares that we had on the table, we both realized that we needed to add another row of squares as well as make several...