{watching} Casper. We started off watching Wheels on Meals, which I was expected to be standard Jackie Chan/ Sammo Hung fare, but it turned out to actually be in chinese. After 10 minutes of Smallest requesting Small to read all the subtitles, we quit and found Casper just about to start on TV. So it wasn’t much of a family film night, as the older ones of us drifted away having seen it before. (I don’t think I’ve ever seen it all actually. I’ve still no idea what happens in the end.)
{reading} My Age of Anxiety
. I have my own theories about this one. But I’ll reserve them until I’m done reading. And I’ve decided that everything that gets started will get noted, and everything that gets finished will get reviewed. And I’m going to be backdating a bunch of stuff that I’ve read and didn’t want to review at the time. Generally speaking around 10-20 people read my reviews, positive or negative (ignoring the autism book reviews, which can get hundreds of views in a day, particularly if shared by the publisher). I’m going to try to go back to reviewing picture books on Shingle Street up to 5 times a week, and we’ll see how it all goes.
{writing} Nano. I took the plunge and started right after midnight last night. I did two batches of writing in the first day, taking my count up to 3469 (though annoyingly I put the second batch in after midnight so it’s showing as assigned to day 2. Hohum. (twitches slightly). My minimal planning in the form of day to day storyboarding is working quite well to give me a focus without confusing me. Probably am going to need some character sheets at some point though. As of yet I haven’t installed any of the productivity apps I’ve had PR emails about (seriously) but I might get round to it at some point. If you’re using anything you’d recommend, let me know?
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Big has spent the week scaring. I think this is her longest stretch away from home so far, and future echoes are loud. Small has stepped up to the mark and been fab with the younger ones in her absence – he is very very patient, as long as he’s getting some lone screen time. Smallest sat down and read to me again this week, she’s getting quite proficient in her own quietly determined way. And Tigerboy was discharged from speech therapy this week, so that was pretty big for him too.
Me? Not a lot to report. But I’ve started Nano. So that’s something. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m writing.
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