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Blog URL http://www.thommalyngrindstaff.com/blog/
Located Elizabethton, Tennessee USA
Tags writing, novels, hiking, Appalachian Mountains, novelist, photography, gardening, piano, music
Chronicles my activities as a novelist, a hiker, a reader, a cat-wrangler, a pianist and guitarist, a gardener, and a nerd.
Latest Blog Posts
- Long Time, No Blog…. on Nov 20, 2009 in Appalachian Mountains Gardening Hiking Patchwork Stained Glass Writing marbled orbweaver NaNoWriMo
Has it really been over a week since I last blogged? *checks calendar*, yup. Well, my only excuse is that I’ve been ears-deep in drafting Heart’s Chalice, tweaking Patchwork Stained Glass, and getting in hikes here and there. Time is...
- Flowing… on Nov 13, 2009 in Appalachian Mountains Hiking Writing autumn fall colors NaNoWriMo
…like a mountain stream: …like a waterfall: My novel Heart’s Chalice, that is. Just broke 43,000 words. Anybody think I can reach 75,000 words by the end of the month? Maybe even 100,000? To say I’m thrilled by how t...
- Awards — and Shop Talk on Nov 7, 2009 in Appalachian fiction Awards Hiking Mirror Blue Patchwork Stained Glass Writing Appalachian Mountains Creative Blogger Award NaNoWriMo plotster vs. panster vultures writing novels writing process
My friend Jaimey Grant honored me by awarding me the Creative Blogger Award and the Let’s Be Friends Award. Thanks, Jaimey! As part of the Creative Blogger Award, I’m to tell seven things about me. I’ll make those seven things...
- Dona Nobis Pacem on Nov 5, 2009 in Blog Blast for Peace Dona Nobis Pacem
“Desiderata” Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, ev...
- NaNo Mania! on Nov 3, 2009 in Writing NaNoWriMo
It’s day three of NaNoWriMo, and so far, I’ve logged over eight thousand words on my novel, Heart’s Chalice. But NaNo’s emphasis on word count aside, I put my emphasis on how the story is flowing, chapter-by-chapter, scene-b...
- Two More Days ‘Til NaNo… on Oct 29, 2009 in Appalachian Mountains Hiking Writing NaNoWriMo
…and I’m ready to write! I ought to be, considering my outline is now eighty pages (single-spaced) and tops out at just over 58,000 words. (Don’t worry — my outline is not longer than my novel-to-be. I expect my novel, He...
- Golden Autumn on Oct 24, 2009 in Appalachian Mountains Hiking Writing autumn National Novel Writing Month
Here is, I believe, one of the prettiest pictures I’ve ever gotten of autumn in our East TN mountains. More later. I’m working my tail off, preparing for NaNoWriMo and making tremendous progress on the outline for Heart’s Chalice...
