Coffee Good, Morning Bad

links for 2008-07-29

• Revels Eviction
  Well, of course the coffee flavour had to go. By rocket no less.
  (tags: revels promotion coffee marketing video choose)

links for 2008-07-26

• Font Conference
  If you have ever had to thrash your way through the abhorence that is system fonts you need to watch this. Who would have thought Comic Sans would save the day?
  (tags: typography video funny fun fonts font education design cool humor)

links for 2008-07-25

• Spell with flickr
  make words with flickr photos, good for scrappers looking for interesting titles I'd wager.
  (tags: flickr Scrapbooking scrapbooks picture projects)

links for 2008-07-22

• Bento no. 1: A basic bento in 20 minutes | Just Bento
  And the first Bento on the list. I feel some shopping at the Oriental supermarket coming on.
  (tags: bento cooking food health japanese lunch recipe recipes foodblog)
• Onigiri (Omusubi) revisited: An easier way to make Japanese rice balls, step by step | Just Hungry
  Blame Jessica again, she's just made some. I'm very jealous.
  (tags: bento cooking diet food health HOWTO Japan japanese lunch recipe recipes tutorial tutorials onigiri)
• My first bento on Flickr - Wordridden.
  Jessica is having this for lunch. I'm having Ryvita. *sobs*
  (tags: bento japanese Japan creativity cooking lunch)

links for 2008-07-21

• Bento Basics | Just Bento
  Jessica reminded me of the humble bento box. I wonder if making these would help Paul and I with our healthy eating thing? I could make lunch each day for both of us and it wouldn't have to be berluddy sandwiches again.
  (tags: bento Japan work lunch diet food cooking japanese health recipe)

links for 2008-07-16

• Kramez's Blog :: Ace Attorney™ Posts - Children's literacy
  Ace Attorney games have the same amount of text and language as a children's novel - so maybe computer games aren't the death of reading after all?
  (tags: literacy writing novel children games gaming "Ace Attorney")
• Is our children reading?
  Literacy and gaming "In my opinion, Phoenix Wright is funnier and cleverer than most TV made for adults"
  (tags: gaming literacy children reading games writing)

links for 2008-07-14

• Kittens in the Kitchen: Taste and Create: Cinnamon Sugar Donut Muffins
  Jessica pointed me to these. They look SCRUMMY!
  (tags: baking cinnamon muffins cooking recipe)

links for 2008-07-11

• SUBLIME STITCHING - This Ain't Your Gramma's Embroidery!
  So very true. I've been sucked in but I tell you it's fun! Where craft meets colouring in. I'm all over that.
  (tags: cool craft crafting crafts creativity cross crossstitch decor design embroidery fabric fun gift gifts handmade home HOWTO ideas pattern projects retro sewing stitch supplies tutorial vintage patterns DIY shopping)

Behind and Ahead

So, far I have only written 4208 words when I should be closer to 8,000 really. On the other hand I did some stuff this weekend that needed doing and I had the rare opportunity to go out, not once but twice, so I feel no shame. Also, I've done some badass planning and tomorrow I have a whole day free for writing bar a meeting at 11am.

In other news I've joined Shimelle's My Freedom class and so I think I'll be blogging about that as well. I've been really enjoying doing some scrapbooking classes focussed on self-reflection recently. I still have some of Kollete Hall's Art of Becoming More to finish but I have the prompts and I'll be happy to wait until after the Great Novel Writing Effort to do that.

Equally, I'll try and do the writing for Shimelle's class as a warm up to writing sessions but I might not scrapbook it all until August.

4208 words

I've introduced my 3 master characters (although one of them we don't know recognise who he is yet), 2 major characters and 2 minors, as well as setup 3 main strands of plot and a sideplot.
It's all so rough it's embarrassing but I'm determined to get down as many different scenes as possible to create progression. I figure dialogue can always be smartened up later on.

So, yup, 4208. Just need to write another 800 tomorrow and Paul can't hold me to tidying the bedroom. Though I almost certainly will anyway cos my mum is visiting for the weekend and we all know what mums think about messy bedrooms, right?