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2014-11-09 21.34.08 It’s short and sweet from me this week, and when I say sweet I mean sweet. I spent the weekend with my adorable nephew who is a little shining star…he is Z-man 🙂

Though I haven’t done a great deal of writing, I have honoured the arts and spent most of the day creating, painting and generally having fun – food for the soul.

My blogging, writing and editing goals haven’t suffered much. I have 12,260 words in my NaNo bank too, so that’s not half bad!

Before I go, I wanted to say a HUGE thank you to Kay, Renee, Amy, Shan Jeniah, Gloria, Ruth and Beth for allowing me to do a guest post/cover reveal for The Fifth Watcher. I really appreciate your support. I’m in the process of writing those posts and I’ll be in touch soon.

I look forward to catching up on your progress.

Until next time.

Mel

27 responses to “Crazy Craft Sunday – ROW80 Update”

Chris Kincaid

November 9, 2014

Anything that gets the creativity out is time well spent. I’m glad you had a good day dabbling in the visual arts and congrats on your NaNo word count. Keep going!

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1. mbarkersimpson
  
  November 9, 2014
  
  Thanks, Chris 🙂 I appreciate that. I forget sometimes, how much I enjoy art in general and often spend far too much time on writing. It really was a wonderful day.
  
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callummclaughlin

November 9, 2014

What a lovely post 🙂 It’s great you’re doing so well with your goals and still managing to have fun!

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1. mbarkersimpson
  
  November 9, 2014
  
  I do feel extremely lucky. But spending time with my family can do that 😉 Thanks, Callum.
  
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Love Happy Notes – Daily Fun and Inspiration

November 10, 2014

Your gorgeous Nephew is definitely a shining star. What a beautiful day! You are amazing. I don’t know how you manage to fit so much in. Congratulations on your word count. That’s awesome.

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Renee

November 10, 2014

Awe, your nephew is gorgeous!

And you’re very welcome. Anything I can do to help! 😀

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1. mbarkersimpson
  
  November 10, 2014
  
  Thank you 😀
  
  It’s Z-man’ ‘say cheese’ face! He runs my girls ragged – has them wrapped around his little finger!
  
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rachelalsowrites

November 10, 2014

Your nephew is so adorable!!

Great word count, and I’m super excited to read all your guest posts/cover reveals!

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1. mbarkersimpson
  
  November 10, 2014
  
  Thanks, Rachel. I’m just trying to decide which parts to use a excerpts – I want to choose a variety so there’s less repetition 🙂
  
  And yeah, he’s adorable and he knows it! But then he has so many women vying for his attention I sometimes fear we’ll ruin him for the world…what are we turning him into?!
  
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Mishka Jenkins

November 10, 2014

I’d give up on writing and things to spend quality time with family 😀 Plus that word count is amazing!

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1. mbarkersimpson
  
  November 10, 2014
  
  Thanks, Mishka. It’s better than I thought it would be considering. I’m happy with it and I appreciate your words of encouragement 🙂
  
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Fallon

November 10, 2014

creating in any way is great!

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1. mbarkersimpson
  
  November 10, 2014
  
  Agreed 🙂
  
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Jacqui Murray

November 10, 2014

What a sweetheart! Kids are all about creativity. They don’t know the ‘rules’ so we need to adapt. Love the picture.

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1. mbarkersimpson
  
  November 10, 2014
  
  Not following the rules is sometimes the best part! Thanks for your kind words 🙂
  
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mrschmoe

November 10, 2014

Sounds Like your day was mellow, even with a bit of writing, you channeled your creative mojo to other things. I’m a little slow at the moment, a few things pop up. 😛

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1. mbarkersimpson
  
  November 10, 2014
  
  I’m a little slow too…I haven’t done the rounds, but it’s on my agenda this evening. I hope to learn all about your distractions 😉 Here’s a cup of brute strength coffee to give you a little kick!
  
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  1. mrschmoe
    
    November 10, 2014
    
    Thank you, takes a sip from the brute. receives a whiplash from the coffee, starts writing via being dazed and confused state, before passing out on the chair.
    may the creativity flow from thy finger tips to your document.
  2. mbarkersimpson
    
    November 10, 2014
    
    lol – I didn’t mean to cause such an adverse reaction…the writing is good…the passing out – not so much! I hope creativity flows for you too *hands cup of reduced strength coffee* 😉
  3. mrschmoe
    
    November 10, 2014
    
    a good coffee would keep one up until the writing is done. Sometimes a brute of the coffee has an extra kick leftover from previous headbutting of other writers.
  4. mbarkersimpson
    
    November 10, 2014
    
    I’ll remember that 😉
  5. mrschmoe
    
    November 10, 2014
    
    I forgot to add that I had to research for certain female character, who knew writing certain female characters is a tough thing to write. and several detours, the upside I learn few new crumbs of info.
  6. mbarkersimpson
    
    November 10, 2014
    
    Females in general are pretty tough! Some can be extremely difficult to write, especially if they hide themselves and play hard to get 🙂 If you mentioned this research in your post, I’ll look forward to reading it later this evening.
Gloria Weber

November 10, 2014

My daughter just said, “That’s an adorable little child.” I agree with her. 🙂 Without a doubt you focused on the more important thing.

It is my honor to help you, especially since you inspired the new image on my blog! Yes, I actually made the image that tells people I want to help them.

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1. mbarkersimpson
  
  November 10, 2014
  
  Woo hoo 🙂 That’s awesome. I’m lagging behind trying to prepare my cover reveal text, but will send it to you tomorrow. I’ll go over right now and check out your brand spanking new image! It’s a great support.
  
  I agree with your daughter too! He is the sweetest little thing – a little ray of sunshine and I love him to pieces 🙂
  
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jannatwrites

November 12, 2014

Sometimes it’s nice to have other creative outlets besides writing (gasp!) Your nephew is adorable – put a smile on my face 🙂

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1. mbarkersimpson
  
  November 12, 2014
  
  Thanks, I’m glad 🙂 He makes me smile everyday!
  
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