The Girdle of Melian

ast linky post! This year, I'm not doing the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge , but am sharing weekly linky posts anyway! I'd meant to do one each day, reposting travel photos for each letter, but unfortunately couldn't find the time to arrange them in advance. Happy to report that my ROW80 goals are coming along -- all my schoolwork is done! And I used my week off to start entering the handwritten edits for The Handful of Time and I caught up on blog comments! Almost. Boy, I'd missed you all! V is for...Vancouver. Except that apparently our trip there was before I started sharing travel photos on the blog. So instead, under various , we have: Richard Burton , ditties from childhood , the Decorah eagles live stream, and a Friday Five questionnaire , which seems to have actually come to pass in many surprising ways. I'm going to repost that one below. W is for... wineries and vineyards X is for...x marks the spot: Founex village, and Founex part t...

nother linky post! This year, I'm not doing the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge , but am sharing weekly linky posts anyway! I'd meant to do one each day, reposting travel photos for each letter, but unfortunately couldn't find the time to arrange them in advance. Happy to report that my ROW80 goals are coming along -- all my schoolwork is done! And I have a week off in which I can hopefully start entering the handwritten edits for The Handful of Time . Then to catch up on blog comments! P is for... St Prex Q is for...all the places missing photos, mostly visited before I started this blog (10 years ago!), because I couldn't find a place for Q! Aberdyfi Amsterdam Brussels Cardiff Canterbury Dublin various towns in southern France Grasmere Holmfirth Holyhead Liverpool Manchester Newtown (Wales) Penzance Ramsgate Thirsk Washington, D.C. R is for... Rolle S is for... St Lawrence Valley , including lavender fields and driving back from ...

his year, I'm not doing the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge , but am sharing weekly linky posts anyway! I'd meant to do one each day, reposting travel photos for each letter, but unfortunately couldn't find the time to arrange them in advance. J is for...journeying in the United States , road trip 2 K is for... Kusadası , Turkey, and part two L is for... London , including the Victoria and Albert Museum and Lord Rochester (and here's Charles II ) M is for... Montreal , including my guide to 24 hours in Montreal Also, here are a few articles I've written for the Bizim Anadolu newspaper: Montreal is an Island Hevelspending Walking in Old Montreal Ideas for Your Staycation Recipe for Pâté chômeur Château Ramezay Shakespeare in the Park Salon Moov (hairstyling and Bengal cats!) N is for... Nairobi , and part two O is for... Oxford , and part two , plus Tolkien in Oxford And from Bizim Anadolu : Tolkien, and My First Novel Here...

'm not doing the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge this year, but might do these weekly linky posts anyway! I'd meant to do one each day, reposting travel photos for each letter, but unfortunately couldn't find the time this year. Instead, here's a quick roundup: A is for...all around the United States , road trip 1 B is for... Bern C is for... St Cergue and the Descent of the Cows D is for... Dover E is for... Edinburgh and Culross and Dunfermline F is for... Fribourg, Switzerland and Freiburg, Germany G is for...neighbours! Paris and Divonne-les-Bains H is for... Holmfirth I is for... Istanbul and the Bosphorus , and elsewhere in Turkey -- also featuring my oldest email saved online (I have older ones that are in print only) Today is also Insecure Writer's Support Group Day! This month's question is rather timely, as I'm trying frantically to catch up with my main ROW80 goal, which is to finish my final essay for school. Due ...

inter lingers on! The prompt for the February excercise on the writers' forum was to reveal setting through character. Here're the longer guidelines: "1) reveal settings through your characters and 2) don’t stop the action. Here are some ways to do that: 1. Reveal setting through motion. Consider what your character would notice, either immediately, or in passing. What do they interact with? Show the attachment (or lack of it) they have to a place. Have your character physically in the space. For instance, don’t just describe a suitcase in the middle of the hall, but have your character weave around it. Diana Gabaldon once noted that readers follow movement, so create it. Have your character lifting, turning, acting in some way with the setting. 2. Reveal setting through a character’s level of experience. A character’s beliefs and experiences will influence what they notice. Age, position, education, training, superstitions, fears, sex, etc., will color the...

his Sunday is Tolkien Reading Day! Tolkien Reading Day "has been organised by the Tolkien Society since 2003 to encourage fans to celebrate and promote the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien by reading favourite passages. We particularly encourage schools, museums and libraries to host their own Tolkien Reading Day events." "The theme of Tolkien Reading Day 2018 is Home and Hearth: the many ways of being a Hobbit. What will you be reading?" I think I'll go back to my copy of The History of The Hobbit , which I've still not finished reading! I also haven't even started my copy of Beren and Luthien , published last year. I've been reading less fiction on my commute, and many more articles and texts for school. Just for fun, here's a screenshot of one of my favourite images of Tolkien's: As for schoolwork, the first round of the year of A Round of Words in 80 Days has ended! Let's see how I did on my ROW80 goals ... enter h...

new book! Last Call by TL Watson is out now! Newly-single attorney Gwen Cooper’s list of things that make her happy is pretty simple: 1. her teenage sons 2. her stilettos 3. finally taking control of her own life While texting the first on the list to warn them she’s missed her flight home, she plows into a hot-shot movie star, has a lukewarm latte dumped down her blouse, and snaps a heel off item number two. When the actor shows up at the hotel bearing an apology of replacement Louboutins, she should be wondering how he got her room number. Instead, she’s simmering over his well-tailored suit and conjuring more sinful ways for him to make things up to her. And why not? The notorious bachelor is the perfect guy to kick off her post-divorce fantasies of no strings attached. Ever again. Blake Donovan claimed Hollywood’s top spot by playing the self-centered bad boy his manager and publicist created. Lonely as it is, he’s long since accepted the image he portrays to the ...