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Writing Night

January 24, 2013August 25, 2015 Crystal // Dreams, etc. 2 comments
Writing Night
My friend Sarah and I have always talked about setting up writing days where the two of us get together and spend the time writing. Last week we finally scheduled one writing day a week for the next few weeks.
If I have time when people come over I like to make dinner (and sometimes I’ll bake something too). This time I made Baked Ziti with a recipe from The Pioneer Woman.  If you like pasta and cheese, you should take a look at this dish!  It was delicious.  Even Little One couldn’t help but take a peak after we left the table.
(Side note: I’ve decided to change Le Chiot’s blog name to Little One.  I call her that sometimes so it fits more.)
Sarah came over on Friday and… well… we didn’t get a lot of writing done. We talked a lot and looked stuff up on the internet. We also spent time working on blogs; she started hers and I spent time fiddling with the colors of the layout of mine (I’m never happy with layouts). We watched the pup stare at us through tired eyes, begging us to wrap up for the night so that she could go to bed.
But, we both pulled up the starts of novels that we wrote a few years ago for NaNoWriMo. Neither one of us actually completed the challenge that year but I’ve found that even I don’t make it to 50,000 words the challenge was beneficial because I always have the start of a story to return to. I read a few sections of the novel that I pulled up and had to laugh at some of the sentences that I wrote. It’s obvious that I was trying to meet a word count!

I’m excited to get back into this story in 2013. It’s about halfway done now so I created a writing plan for the next few months and should have the first draft finished soon!

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2 comments

  1. Patrycja Photography says:
    January 25, 2013 at 9:19 am

    Very cool blog. Interesting posts. 😉
    Nice atmosphere guests with you here on the blog. ;]
    Yours. Have a nice day. !

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  2. Sarah says:
    January 28, 2013 at 5:52 am

    Wonderful picture! She looked so annoyed by the end of the night!
    I'm glad we did it though! It helped me get my focus back and return to being excited about writing! Plus you finally got me to try blogging again, which I'm actually enjoying!
    Next week though…writing, writing, writing!!!

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I'm Crystal, the storyteller behind Dreams, etc. I'm all about learning how to live slowly & sustainably, while also seeking adventure as we follow our dreams, etc.

May 2023. Savannah, Georgia. Lots of Mina. Lots of May 2023. Savannah, Georgia. Lots of Mina. Lots of new growth on plants.
The other day I realized that there is no Savannah The other day I realized that there is no Savannah on my feed and…well, Savannah is beautiful and needs to be there. These were taken in Lafayette Square on my second day in Georgia.
Picture it. It’s the day after Thanksgiving. I d Picture it. It’s the day after Thanksgiving. I didn’t go on my weekly dam walk earlier in the week when I was excited about it. On this day I was tired after a long week and my least favorite holiday. My bed was oh so comfortable. I forced myself to roll out of bed and journey to the dam. It was filled with people and I was pokey…taking my time to get there and even journeying down one of the other paths to avoid walking across the dam. (Which isn’t long.) I finally joined the crowd and walked across. And then came back, happy to have made my weekly journey. This is when the top layer of the water started to freeze.
From March: an old mini vlog from a bagpipe rock c From March: an old mini vlog from a bagpipe rock concert, which is mostly me trying the say bagpipe rock. Some word combinations are hard! 😂 There was a sign asking us not to film, which is why there’s no concert footage.
Some of my weekly dam walks have been therapeutic Some of my weekly dam walks have been therapeutic and while the walks haven’t fixed the problems, they’ve help me breathe and connect with the world and relieve stress. 💕
April 2023. We got more snow, but it also melted. April 2023. We got more snow, but it also melted. The dam was almost overflowing. The animals are beginning to emerge. Spring is here!
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