So, I was off DayJob and somehow managed NOT to sign up for Six Sentence Sunday. I was sure I had done it when I prepared the post, but then on Sunday I didn’t see my name on the list. Sigh. Before the Book Fair (started on the 7th) I’ve been working on the print [...]
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Summary of the past week(end)
Posted by Barb on December 14, 2011
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/summary-of-the-past-weekend/
Daily prompts and an update… or two
OK, daily prompt digest. Topic #225: if I could control the weather, considering that the heat I was spared in July is here now, I’d have “cool” weather now. Possibly snowy, mwhahahaha!!! OK, I’ll move to the North Pole, sometime! Topic #222: Do I prefer to lead or to follow? Mmm, good question. That’s probably [...]
Posted by Barb on August 24, 2011
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/daily-prompts-and-an-update-or-two/
sigh
Hope your weekend was better than mine. Saturday morning i caught a virus/worm (in the form of a “malware detector” no less, how wicked is that?) that blocked my PC – my brother saved the day, BUT I still can’t reinstall the printer, the driver fails to install, so I can scan, I have a [...]
Posted by Barb on June 28, 2011
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daily prompt, weekly digest
… but I’ve picked up last Friday’s so I’m not to late. Topic #134 was: if you got a tattoo, what would it be? Especially since I started SKYBAND (where every major character has at least 2 tattoos) I’ve been thinking on what I’d like to try. I’m not too keen on permanent things, so [...]
Posted by Barb on May 25, 2011
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/daily-prompt-weekly-digest/
Back and still catching up
Last week I was in London to meet friends AND use libraries without having to buy books and doing some research “on the field” for the historical novel. I came back with a cold, thanks to the British weather, and Sunday afternoon/night my server (Telecom Italia) was so very slow that I had to quit [...]
Posted by Barb on May 17, 2011
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/back-and-still-catching-up/
On historical novels
Because I’m typing draft zero in the computer and I’m taking notes on what I want to change and expand, and because next week I might be able to go to a library to do some more research, I thought I’d rant about that for a day. My main source for research has been the [...]
Posted by Barb on May 5, 2011
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/on-historical-novels/
Writing styles for historical novels
This month our off-line writers group will have to review two historical novels excerpts – mine and somebody else’s – so I guess we can make March the Historical Novel Month! Just kidding, it wasn’t supposed to be that way, but one contributor had to drop out and another historical novel stepped in. The two [...]
Posted by Barb on March 1, 2011
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/writing-styles-for-historical-novels/
Reading break
I must finish my first draft of the historical novel by march 19, and also reading all those neat PDFs I downloaded from Gallica, Project Guttenberg or Medieval Sourcebook. I’m at the beginning of part 3, that will probably be shorter than the middle, but still… I should be able to write it by the [...]
Posted by Barb on February 24, 2011
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My name is Barb, and I'm a writer, sometimes an artist, mostly a world-creator and storyteller of fantasy worlds. I have more than one pen-name and write in more than one genre.
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