It's been now 6 weeks since olamina came to visit Brazil. We had many interesting conversations during those days we spent together, mostly about our families and lives. Two of them have stayed with me ( Read more... )

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I failed at NaNoWriMo this year ( Read more... )

Via spacefem:

1) Where do you go for work?
I live at my workplace - a guesthouse in the mountains of Serra da Mantiqueira, Brazil. It’s a small family-run guesthouse; my brother and I do all the work. It’s the shortest commute in my professional career’s history.

2) What is your office like?Depends on the day. Sometimes it’s the guesthouse’s reception, ( Read more... )

It's been 15 days since NaNoWriMo started. I'm dropping by to say "hey!" to you, that "all's fine" and that I'm "hitting targets ( Read more... )

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After promising years ago never to do NaNoWriMo again, I’m now planning on taking part again, starting in a week’s time. (I can see you rolling your eyes in the back of the room millionreasonsI have a novel I’ve been writing off and on for 10 years - a novel I started with NaNoWriMo then abandoned, only to pick it up again in 2015 when I returned to London after ( Read more... )

Season 11 of LJ Idol.

It sounds like a mash up of X Factor, NaNoWriMo and Save Livejournal Month. As I have quite a lot of spare time at the guesthouse, this is an ideal game to get some writing done plus meet LJers. :)

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One thing I read in this community which resonated with me: LiveJournal has ( Read more... )