Week in Review

[spindle_ella]

Gonna start doing a thing.

Currently Reading:

Water Ways, by Jasper Winn. Part of my canals deep dive. I'm enjoying this one, Winn was brought on by the Canal and River Trust to be a 'writer in residence' (for a given value thereof, since the brief was to travel the canal network and write a book, so not so much with the 'residence' part). So far Winn's doing a great job of mixing his present travels with the history, which I always find is a make-or-break for me in this type of book. And the information is fascinating to me, canals powered so much of the industrial revolution, and the study of geology, and then were just rendered obsolete because the railways came along and the canals hadn't been built to be anything faster than horse-powered. The company that's now Monsanto still used them, because it made more sense for dangerous chemicals.

Fear, by Bob Woodward. This is going much slower. I think I might be nearing burn-out stage on US politics again, also it's treading ground from other books I've read (obviously it is, but even though there's new information added every time, there are only so many times you can see the same scene).

Writing:

Word count is 19,162 for the week, which isn't too shabby. Mostly on the Little Mermaid retelling for allbingo, which has gone a bit out of control, but a few snippets on my urban fantasy thriller, which I'm going to be working on for NaNoWriMo. I'm trying to mostly work on plotting for that.

Crafting:

Just notebooks for the shop this week; this is yesterday's batch.  Still no idea why the pictures upload sideways:




General Health/Mood: 

Bleh.  None of the NaNo meets in my area are in my town, so if things don't improve I'm not sure how many I'll be able to get to.  It's a bit counter-productive to set off my nervous system's shenanigans by going to a meeting, and then being unable to write because the Chronic Pain Fairy has revved up his trusty rusty chainsaw.

Music:

Loving Kyla la Grange's Hummingbird.

"Kyla La Grange - Hummingbird" (Watch on YouTube)

Comments

[annofowlshire]

Ooooh. Totally passed me by that you did travelers notebooks. If I add another to my collection (I already have 3....), I'll have to check them out ^_^

[spindle_ella]

Thank you! :D I made myself one, and then before I knew it everything spiralled and now I have a brand. XD

[chez_jae]

Crikey! I haven't written that much in two months. Ha ha! Keep up the good work!

[spindle_ella]

Thank you! Sometimes I just hit stride, lol.

[used_songs]

I get how the canal stuff can become absorbing. I really like learning about how technological innovations changed life for people in the past, perhaps because it's all at a safe distance unlike the innovations we have to contend with today.

[spindle_ella]

I think it's also a reminder (at least in my mind) that these things are cyclical - like, relying on one industry/job is something the working class tend to be forced into, and then the technology suddenly changes (like the railways did for the boaters, and the car did for the massive support network that enabled horse-drawn travel; farriers were practically obsolete in less than a single life-time) Multi-skilling and retraining is hard, but history repeatedly demands it.