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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Lift Off!

Full moon in the sky, and thousands of people have transformed into writers. The first day of NaNowriMo was a 25 hour day, thanks to the end of Daylight Savings Time. Hubby went to the midnight write-in at our Municipal Liason's house and came back with 1700 words

Lift off in T Minus One

There is a midnight write-in tonight, which I will not be attending because I just can't do midnights. But I will be up bright and early at 5:30am tomorrow to start my novel. I'm sure Hubby will have already written 5000 words on his novel

Tweets for the week of October 30th

* National Novel Writing Month starts in 8 days. I have 8 days to fill in the holes in my plot and dig out the Pointy Stick for Word Warring. * Cannot believe that thumb drive made it through 2 wash cycles and 1 dryer cycle intact. Centon DataStick Sport really IS

Lift off in T Minus Three

What do you mean it's November in three days, I'm not ready! Seriously, I'm not ready. I should have reams of plot by now and I've got what? Four measly pages and some thoughts about charm and strange quarks. I have never

The LHC and particle physics

BBC News: Particle beams injected into LHC. Engineers working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have successfully injected beams of particles into two sections of the vast machine. An LHC spokesperson said this was the first time particle beams had been inside the LHC since it was shut down late

Lift off in T Minus Five

The St Louis NaNoWriMo region had our kick off party on Saturday at Racanelli's on the Loop. Old friends were reunited, new friends were made, pictures were taken, I discovered I like tiramisu, and found out what an Irish Martini is (irish whiskey, chilled, served in a martini

Workspace

This is where I spend a lot of time, my desk in the craft room: The bay window lets in the afternoon sun and my IKEA desk matches the shape of the window, we stained it together in the new garage. Still a novelty that, we have a garage and

The Word Wrangler and the Pointy Stick

Way back in the mists of time in November 2007, there were two Municipal Liasons for the St Louis region of NaNoWriMo, Denise and Jen. It was decided that since we were engaged in regional Word Wars with the I-70 corridor, we needed an official cheerleader, someone to rally the

Tweets for the week of October 23rd

* In work ridiculously early and no-one can find the light switch, not me, not former boss, not big boss, all wandering around in the dark. * Stupid light switch hiding behind stupid fake tree in the lobby, we have light now, former boss found it. Who hides a light switch? * Have

Three things

Three knitted things were lost in the move from one house to another. Three things I initially thought I wouldn't use, and then used constantly. Casualty #1: Roll-brim hat This hat was an experiment with two-colour knitting using Rowan Cocoon, which is not the best for colour work,

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