Nayu's News #225 Minor post delays

Happy Monday! I hope your week is starting out with something positive, no matter how tiny, because hope is very important in our lives.

I knew there wasn't going to be my usual What Are You Reading? meme today, because I was recovering from seeing my family Thursday evening on both Friday and Saturday when I give the details to my friend to deal with. I'd really hoped to schedule a load of reviews today (October review schedule while activated isn't happening for me review wise as I'm playing catch up), but still recovering from my sleepover on Saturday. Again it wasn't me going to bed late, but my body has to work doubly hard to be social in late afternoon/evening and it's protesting at not having rested fully. >_< There's seriously little I can do with a cranky Muse & a cranky body! 

Two cranky selfs = a big sigh and lots of rest

So it's a speedy blog work & email check today, so I can have a quiet one catching up with TV, doing some crochet and much needed (& wanted) reading! I will be making some super speedy banana & oat cookies but that's because the bananas need using up. Will be back as soon as I'm rested!

No idea where this is from but I love her hair!! (& wings...)

Nayu's News #215: Book Reviewing & Book Writing

Hot chocolate with a stack of books is my kind of heaven! Picture source

 

Hi everyone! Thank you for being patient while I've been absent. I was a bit peaky, and I've been working hard on writing the backlog of reviews which is my sort of secret book review project. It's not a secret now, and I'm sure I've mentioned it previously. Anyway, I'm 1/3 through the process! 

Holo from the anime Spice and Wolf does a good impression of me when I stay up late reading. I don't use a candle though!

 

1) Write the reviews on my tablet =COMPLETE

2) Post reviews on blog = pending

3) Read & review remaining books

I'm making good progress with this mammoth project which until now has felt neverending. It's great to see the end in sight, and to share so many brilliant novels with you. Gettin them written means I can spend more time creating lovely crochet items and on my own novels-yay! The one still with betas needs major work, but hopefully the current one I'm working on will be in better shape. ^o^ 

Seems appropriate to use Holo again! As much as I'd love to write with a quill and ink,

 

Nayu's News #201 My Muse is in the Mood!

For some reason my Muse frequently acts like Holo in the anime Spice and Wolf: in this case stroppy.

No, my Muse isn't in that kind of mood. She sure can sulk and grumble, but the mood she's in today is more like this: 

Holo again! Looking mega mega happy ^o^

Over the past week in particular Muse is on fire. 

Holo on fire with enthusiasm!

 By working hard on resting more with anime, watching anime music videos, and other stuff I think being more relaxed is having a positive effect on my Muse. She is writing much more. She is more vocal about when she wants to write too. 

While she can pester me to write with words, she only has to look like Holo does here and I'm such a sucker for Muse looking cute. Naturally as I writer I've already lost the plot so yes I can see my Muse!

She's demanded to write as soon as I wake up early, and right before I go to bed. Wherever possible I agree and let Muse play. It's fun! I'm almost half-way through my novel, and I'm aiming to finish this round of edits by the end of the month. It's doable, as now until the end of my wip (work in progress) is more together than the first part which needed complete rewriting. That's not to say it's perfect, far from it. 

I've got a lot of rephrasing to do, and some word finding. I've been finding Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com extremely useful when I want to check what a word means (sometimes what I think it means isn't what it means) or find a more suitable word to a word I know. 

I Muse figured out what she I was doing wrong. There have been a few parts where I  Muse knew the writing wasn't quite right, but I couldn't figure out precisely what the issue was. I had a yay! moment the other night - I've been headhopping, switching my point of view to the wrong character, which competely changes the dynamic of the story. Issue identified, I'm now able to solve it and that particular paragraph is heaps better - another yay moment! 

Holo in a yay! moment!

I'm loving my current life as part-time author, part-time crochet artist!

Isn't Madoka from Aikatsu cute!!!