I’m fairly certain that if you were to analyze the content, style, structure and execution of my writing over the previous two hundred and thirty days, I don’t believe you would find much improvement at all. My writing is choppy, sloppy and at times semi incoherent. But on the plus side, I have stuck with it for nearly eight full months! Wow! Look at me, just going for it. Had a few scares here and there. Forgot about writing once or twice, had a fair few power outages, plus a complete nation wide communications service provider outage that nearly cost me my streak. But Bell was there to see me through at my in-laws place. It has been a ride, I’ll tell you that much. I don’t recall a lot of what I’ve written, stream of consciousness and all. Only a handful of posts have been pre-planned and those would have been a part of my collected works of short fiction/science fiction. Which reminds me, I never did post the finalized book two to Kindle Unlimited. Oh well. I may just revisit both books for a style check, and print them out myself at home, just to have a paper copy. A good enough reason to buy a new working printer. Or so I think.
Month: August 2022
Would you say I have a plethora? Of colouring pages, yes – certainly.
Not sure why but everywhere we go we seem to accumulate children’s colouring pages in order to get entered for free stuff. It’s madness. At one event we came home with no fewer than nine! Nine (9) that’s pure insanity. And let me tell you, the quality of drawing and/or paper was at best lackluster. Shoddy drawings on garbage paper. Fit for the pit! In some cases we used the ugliest, cheapo pampered ones to start a bon fire in a friends back yard. If you want to make an impression, buy a good drawing, or pay a talented artist to provide you with an original for you to use. And don’t skimp on the paper. Bleed through of markers, pencil crayons or crayons will mar your final product if you intend to display the ones you get back at your place of business. If 80% of your returned works have bunched holes in them from markers soaking through and ruining the paper, that makes you look bad, not the children. If you’ve never watched kids colour with markers before you should know they wield them like daggers stabbing at the paper, blunting the ends, and scraping the nub over the paper as if they were trying to skin a rhino. It’s all madness and chaos and mayhem. Act accordingly.
Holiday Monday today. Having pancakes with hand made maple syrup. Living the dream, of sorts. Also we are now officially into August with only five weeks of summer holidays left to go. Trying my best not to count down the days, but I am keeping track of them, that’s like, totally different. Not even in the same vicinity, really.
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