Spring Cleaning

During the month of March, I read Utopia by Thomas More and wrote a lengthy essay on it as well as creating an oddly juvenile poster.  I also read Shakespeare's The Life of Henry V and wrote an essay on that as well.  I also finally watched It's a Wonderful Life, read some Tolstoy, and finished my essay on Jean Anouilh's Antigone.

Well, actually I finished that essay last night.

In other news, I opened up one of those old boxes in the basement and found, to my delight, the entire history of my life from birth to about fourth grade.  This is where things get scary.  Apparently, from about first to third grade, I was the class's resident math whiz.  

I think if nine year old me could see seventeen year old me, she would be ashamed of the math skills I now possess.  However, in that box, I did find about a dozen or so odd books that I'd written as a child, which consist of flowers named Stephanie and Horses in the snow and also about my unadulterated joy at finally seeing what trees looked like after getting glasses.

Script Frenzy is up and running, and I have about fifty pages on that, so I'm powering through in anticipation of a busy second half of April.  I'm working on the third installment of Naomi's series, so I skipped an entire book.  We'll see how that goes.

I also completed another step in my more-euro-chic-than-thou process by eating French Lavender ice cream.  I don't know how to feel about it just yet.

TTFN

M.K. Wissler

NaNoWriMo Will Be the Death of Me

Honestly, Nano, one month was enough, wasn't it?  One month of painfully delicious writing was enough for us.  One month of tough love from the forums and pep talks from you lovely folk was enough.

But then there was Screnzy, right?  And of course even us novelists jumped right on it.  One more month; what harm could it do?

And now CampNaNoWriMo?  Two more months?  Of course, I know we can choose which month, but still.

All I can say is:

You rock.

Thank you for transporting the idea of NaNo to the summer when I have more time. (Not that I do).

TTFN

M.K. Wissler

Full Titles of EVERYONE.

So...I may or may not have gotten a little bit into the royal wedding.

And when I say that, I mean that I laughed myself silly over this:

Oh dear.

Well in any case, all this royal talk prompted me to think about Princess Naomi's full titles once she takes the throne of Oxlerran at the end of the book.  I adapted Queen Victoria's titles and whipped up some Oxlerranian names and let me tell you, it was fun.  

Her Imperial Majesty Gwenaelle Franceline Naomi Louise of the Venceslas Clan,  by the Grace of God, Empress of Oxlerran, Betrorai, and the Wayrhyme Islands, Defender of the Faith, Queen of Erea'e, Duchess of Kr'r, Countess of Vaxim, Baroness of Ryka.

So fun.

Action!

By the way, it's Script Frenzy, people!

Since last year's script is currently being transformed into a novel, I decided to skip that step and am writing 100 pages of Naomi, which is very exciting.  Seriously, this new story is consuming me even more than Alex did, which is really saying something.  I have my dream cast, and my family tree, and my detailed outline, and it is just so much fun.

TTFN

M.K. Wissler

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