Comments on: Trail Mix

By: @ngie

@ngie — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:30:19 +0000

I thought you would appreciate the paintings. Thanks for the props, Thumbuddy, you are a good friend.

By: danielle hodgson

danielle hodgson — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:51:21 +0000

cool paintings! you do so much: missionary, mom, wife, friend, blogger, author, teacher, artist, mountain climber… wow. inspiring.

By: @ngie

@ngie — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:49:39 +0000

Ellie, I am glad you saw your star! I haven’t given one of those out in a long while…

By: Ellie

Ellie — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:35:21 +0000

Wow! I’m impressed. I thought I was doing good today to get all the laundry folded!

Writing… wow.. I was tempted to start up again, but the one book took so much out of me and two years to write… I just don’t know. Besides, since I spend so much time behind the computer for work, just wasn’t sure to add more…

climbing – wow! Now that is something that I would like – if it warmed up! I’m impressed.

Hey, was reading through your blog last week, and totally missed that you gave me a gold star… like months ago… oops!

THANK-YOU! I felt special – six months later! :)

By: @ngie

@ngie — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:54:09 +0000

Julie, Tunari beckons me. I am hoping the rains hold off… at least for that day.

Yes. There is a shop that specializes in turkeys not even three blocks from my home. They have also started to bring them into to the grocery stores (from the same shop in my neighborhood). Now I just need to figure out what size to buy. :-)

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:12:53 +0000

Wow, you are an artsy maniac! Way to go on the novel. Don’t you love random free days!

I have some unforgettable memories of climbing Tunari, especially when our friend’s car got stuck and we were stranded for hours.

Yeah for Thanksgiving and for summer vacation. Can you guys get turkeys there? We are going to pretend with chickens!

By: Maureen

Maureen — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:51:34 +0000

Awesome!!!

By: @ngie

@ngie — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:44:19 +0000

Birgit, my friend Becky does a little writing game on her blog every once in a while. It is called JOP (junk on paper). She gives us a topic or an image. Then those who want to play take five minutes to do a free write and leave the results in the comment box. At the end of the 5 minutes no more editing is allowed and you leave whatever ‘junk’ came out. It is a practice on just getting something down. Some fun stuff has happened during JOP days.

I share that because on the NaNoWriMo site they give tips. According to them the hardest part is not self-editing as you go along. They recommend just keeping the writing flowing and get the word count in. Then in December go back and begin the first of many edits. So, in my mind, I am just getting the words down.

To get 50,000 words written in 30 days the average is 1,667 words daily. Insane, right?! :-) At the end of November the story will be out of me and I can go back and tweak, change, rearrange and edit.

Other people use the NaNoWriMo for other goals. I will see how it goes this time around. See if I like it. Just kinda goin’ with the flow for now, I guess…

By: @ngie

@ngie — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:34:11 +0000

Becky, hearing you cheer me on makes me feel very good! Thank you. And keep up those prayers. I can see the light…

By: @ngie

@ngie — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:33:17 +0000

Thanks for all your prayers, Carin. I know that they are helping us at this interesting time. Blessings!