Heir To Magic

I have added another 189 words to my novel.  I had to go down to the doctor’s office with my dad today, get a blood test for him, so while we sat in the waiting room, I worked on my novel.  Did not have a very long wait, but enough to get another almost 200 words on the novel.  I started off a scene that I know will make it into the final version of the novel, so it is even a good expenditure of my writing time.

I also got my March/April issue of Poets & Writers today.  I was reading the Editor’s Note, and Ms. Gannon said something I found very interesting, something I want to do myself.  It seems that she has a journal where she notes down her favorite sentences in novels she reads.  I read that and just went “Oh kewl!” because there have been a lot of times over the years where I would read a passage I particularly loved, but I never thought to make a record of them in a journal.  I have no idea how Ms. Gannon makes her entries, but I would think the best method for me would be to enter the passage that I loved, then the book, author and page number where the passage was to be found.  That way I can always find it again in the books in my library.

Something else that caught my attention in Poets & Writers is an article about writer workshops, in particular what is wrong  with them.  I bookmarked that for careful reading when I get a chance to read it.

Only other item of writing note is that I got my renewal for Writer’s Digest mailed off today.  I’ve been trying to get that mailed off for some time, so I was glad to have got it out the door finally.  Now I just have to mail in the talking books deal for my dad.  Should get that done by Friday.