ReadBookJournal

January 29, 2016

I was writing to the radio drama, "Historical Fiction," aka., "We Find Ourselves Returning to Find Home,". The opening of the radio drama contest had come and gone. The deadline for the competition is nearly upon us now. Sometime in early November 2015 I decided to use the, "Writing Map," I bought. ("Write Around the Bookshop") The first entry in the notebook was from November 7, 2015. I thought that since the opening of the radio drama competition came and went, I would put my radio drama on hold in order to concentrate on the work I needed to do around the house. We always have lots to do getting the house ready for a Christmas guest. I was tempted and distracted by the Writing Map. I figured that it would be something simple to keep me from getting involved in a major project that would detract from the house work. The writing map was indeed simple. There was more room left in the notebook when I was finished. So I downloaded more writing prompts. Around the time I did that, I had started a notebook for notes to a fully fledged story. My goal now is to spend the whole of April 2016 writing a novel.

January 29, 2016

Started, "Writing Map," "Write Around the Bookshop".--

(first entry) = November 7, 2015

Bought: September 9, 2015 (September 10)

Shipped: (From, London, Eng.) September 10, 2015

Arrived: September 19, 2015

Downloaded, "Build Creative Writing Ideas; Free Creative Writing Prompts: #55: Books":

Maybe on, November 9, 2015 (found it that date).

Started answering questions: November 13, 2015

Started Cavallini New York journal book:

Sometime before November 28, 2015. There was rubber stamping and titles first. Then there was some typewritten text from the Writing Map/Prompts book added. That was typed up around November 28, 2015. The first entry hand written in the New York book, is November 28, 2015.

Started, "Long Distance Writing," book, [for this story] ??? [unknown date]. Card stuck on cover and rubber stamping/titles = ??? also.

Discovered, "Camp NaNoWriMo" [this time] on December 6, 2015.

Was reading from, "Write Your Novel in a Month" by Jeff Gerke. Read it early on in this process. Not sure of the exact date.

Red Paperchase scrapbook--

Bought: December 25, 2015

Shipped: december 26, 2015

Arrived: December 30, 2015

Roses re-discovered: January 28, 2016

Roses stuck on cover: January 29, 2016

"The Woman in the Story" by Helen Jacey--

Bought: December 28, 2015

Shipped: January 1, 2016

Arrived: January 8, 2016

Read off and on since it arrived.

I got this because I am now writing a story with women in it. I hope to write more Lums Chapel stories with women in them. I thought this book would help me. It is very much a leftist feminist book. It is interesting on some level. There may be some things that I can learn from this book. It is nice to read how the, "other half," thinks. A great deal of this book has no bearing on me or my culture. As far as I know, I know no one who, "actively question[s] expectations upon them as women". I have gotten as far as page 14 so far. [January 30, 2016] I have a new goal of never writing a character that is a _____ in a woman suit or a ____ in a man suit. In other words, I want to write a female character that is truly a woman. Even if that character has a profession that a man could do, I want her to be female. I don't want to write that character as a man, yet say the character is female and call her by a woman's name etc.

"Guidelines for Writing Christian Fiction" by C.E. Maychild--

Bought: January 1, 2016

Shipped: January 1, 2016

Arrived: January 11, 2016

Read off and on since it arrived.

This book seems to be a very good book. It is written from an Evangelical Christian perspective. I am not sure it is 100% Biblically correct. I am not sure I agree with every position the author takes. I am at page 14 of this book as well. [January 30, 2016] I have not read enough of it to tell much about it. It still seems to be a really, "neat oh," book.

Bought, "The Writing Notebook Family" by shaun Levin on November 2, 2015.

Mailed: ???

Arrived: November 2, 2015

Bought originally for the Lums Chapel story family and the radio drama I was working on. I decided to use it for this story, sometime between, January 22, and January 27, 2016.

March 31, 2016

Tomorrow is April 1, 2016. It is the deadline I set for myself to begin, writing the story, "How I Learned to Read a Book". I am no where near at the point I wanted to be. I still have prep to do. In early March had a, "winter," illness for around two to two and a half weeks. (coughing, not feeling like eating, nausea, etc. Awful!) Lately, I have been toying with the idea of writing this as a radio drama and then working on it as a novel after that. That way I have a radio drama in reserve for the next competition. We shall see what happens. Have to get the rest of dinner which is now in the oven.

September 1, 2016

Testing writing this via new phone. Pain to do it. Small text + slow one letter at a time. More later.