It’s the end of 2020. It’s finally giving up the ghost. In celebration, I figured I’d do an end of year special for the newsletter. I set out to read 100 books this year (quantity vs. quality debate, hey?) – as of yet I’m 81% done… Not sure if I’ll make it, but here’s this […]
Finished NaNoWriMo, but it doesn’t feel as satisfying as imagined to get to 50k words. More satisfying was seeing the tracking of progress every morning as the notebook got fuller and fuller. Also, surprized at how satisfying it is to read things that had been crossed out. I’m retroactively grateful that there’s no delete button […]
As of today, I’m just under 40k words of a first rough draft. It’s going to be a hot mess to edit – because it’s all notes and bursts of dialogue and some plot and many plot holes. It’s embarrassing and difficult to transcribe, but occasionally I’m bolstered by something decent landing on the page […]
Fiela se Kind (Dalene Matthee) Fiela Komotie is basically my mother with the piss and vinegar turned up. So… I can’t remember if we actually read the book in high school Afrikaans class or if a substitute teacher put on the movie. What I do remember are lines from the book/film being meme’d outside of […]