Month: October 2016
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Exploring in Mülheim an der Ruhr
It’s autumn in the north. For us in this part of Europe, that means rain clouds will roll into our skies soon, and hang around up there until February / March next year. Whoo. It’s already started, a little sooner than last year, but I think I’ve already told you that. Anyway, with the sun…
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Story Cube Challenge – Week 11
Hello again! I’d like to thank everyone that has asked how my writing has been going in the last few weeks. I’ve added 36 thousand words. Yes, you read that right. And I’m not even done with the revision. Folks, this is friggen madness. Yesterday was devoted to deleting words, and I’ve managed to get…
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My WIP – Where Did Autumn Go?
First of all, I apologise for missing yet another blog post on Friday. I went to my German lesson as always, then received the bad news that one of our doggies in South Africa passed away. I was really sad and shocked by the news, which really just jumbled my mind, I accomplished nothing for…
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South Africanisms
We seldom think about our unique English dialect. Or at least, we didn’t think much about how we spoke in the past. Then we moved to Germany. It was first brought to my attention that we have a quirky way of speaking, due to the word shame. Of course I’d known that South Africans say…
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My WIP – Family Time
Welcome back. 🙂 This weekend was spent just doing family stuff and it was fantastic. I didn’t write a single word – not for lack of trying, though – but it doesn’t really bother me. We had a ton of fun just hanging out together. My German lesson was cancelled on Friday, because my landlady…
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The Things That Repeat in my Mind
It’s been ages since I updated you on any of my obsessions. Today, I’m going to fix that. As many of you know, I’m currently revising The Physician’s Apprentice. My editor‘s advice was to flesh out some scenes, so I’m adding words. This means a particular kind of madness has come over me. You know…
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Day in Düsseldorf
Hi there, folks. Good to have you back here! After dashing off to write on Friday, a severe case of writer’s block made my life miserable. I pretty much wrote a few words, deleted them, wrote a few more and deleted them too. It sucked. Jan saved the day on Saturday, by arranging a Dad…
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Story Cube Challenge – Week 10
Hi there! I’m happy to report that I’ve broken the 10,000 word mark for this week. Coming up for air to type this post feels strange, as if I’m going to be struck by lightning for doing anything other than work on my book. This isn’t even really coming up for air, because I’M STILL…
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Learning German
I’ve mentioned many times in my recent posts that I’m being tutored in German now. Everybody wants to know how that’s going. Well, it’s crawling. I can speak rudimentary German and I can understand the basics, as long as the speaker speaks slowly. Learning any new language is difficult, especially as one gets older. Ha.…
Yolandie Horak 