Isabel's Progress

Stopping and starting and trying to remain on track amid all the diversions of being interested in Life and living. Some books published within Smashwords, volume of poetry "If I Could Spin" available from Amazon and ploughing on with the background to the creation of all those Trusts dealt with by those you hopefully meet within "The Trustees" available from Smashwords.

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Quick link to latest post on Blog

Quick link to latest post on Blog

https://www.izabellazwriting.com/  

As am rushed – going out to lecture, but wanting to get this out there while I still have the courage to post. am apprehensive about possible comments.

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Plaudits to all you patient people.

Plaudits to all you patient people.

It seems ages since I last wrote a post within this site. (Big Sigh)

Why?

What excuse or explanation can I offer?

Hibernation? Staying in bed for much longer than usual – often after reading until WAY after midnight.

        Head cold

‘Don’t worry, I’m not death — I’m just a bad head cold.’

  Took me longer to recover from that cold than it did when, in 2003, I was evacuated to Perth with a…

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My idea of a great day out

My idea of a great day out

Those who know me well, know I don’t miss a chance to ask a question – or two. Today’s conference provided an opportunity.

Taken away from the day one major outstanding idea which I urge all to visit.

http://www.homesforhomes.com.au/

The day was enhanced by conversations between sessions and there is a strong chance I have found a new friend – or two.

On a selfish level, my biggest buzz was…

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Three FREE for THREE days August 1-3

Three FREE for THREE days August 1-3

Have been having fun with different platforms. Would be interesting to find out which is preferred!

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amazon.com/author/isabelstorey https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B01NBL3X6GAncient lore meets modern law. A century of saga between 1865-1965. Four families, four generations, four countries, four…

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Critique by Wednesday Writers Group

Critique by Wednesday Writers Group

This array of hexagons is my usual basis for hatching out a plot for a story. At some stage I can pull out a thread enabling the stringing of words together.

I have fully plotted an outline for the work now in progress and on Monday morning wrote the first 550+ words. Not a massive output, but within that I have pulled into the opening,  links to ideas I had mapped out for further within the…

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No longer apologising

At last I am beginning to accept something about myself which can only be described by others as boasting or, in Australian parlance, skiting. Currently showing TV series about bright children has undone some restriction I had been placing on myself.  I have been saying it in poetry for years and time I listened to myself.

One measurement has had me labelled as ‘gifted’, another reported…

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Today's entry on the Steemit platform

Today’s entry on the Steemit platform

uLOG is Steemit’s way of encouraging people to post daily. As this is my first it is a doozy and it will be interesting to see if, and if how much I will be rewarded for the effort.

https://steemit.com/ulog/@isabeldorastorey/my-ulog1

Hope this link works. Soon see.

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Hi-Five!

Alive at last! So many days, weeks with so activity in here. all down to companies now requiring upgraded security on web-sites. Good thinking, but when it takes one unawares ……..!!!!!

Thankfully, I have Skype which enabled the long calls while GoDaddy guys poked around the system and finally have me up and running.

Back later for news. Just now I need a coffee and a deep breath and put my feet…

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Priority Post Print Copy arrived today

Priority Post Print Copy arrived today

https://steemit.com/australia/@isabeldorastorey/priority-post-print-copy-arrived-today

Thankfully the hyphen missing in the Kindle copy is intact. Now all I have to do is get my head around marketing print copies. (Relying on reviews and word of mouth for Kindle copies. Today started with an email advising the purchase of a download from someone I have not seen in many years.)

Firs…

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Heirloom featured within my novel

Heirloom featured within my novel

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During the note-making years before I started writing the first draft, I sought an item which would be valuable at the time (18th century) and rare later on. In an encyclopedia of antiques I came across a photo of a piece of Lomonsov porcelain. Friends of mine who are familiar with antiques had not then heard the…

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Making Progress (at last) Within a few days I will have the files I need to upload the novel to Createspace and, when done, it will be available on Amazon as either print or ebook.

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Testing myself within new and different environments

Testing myself within new and different environments

Lately I have been moving out of my comfort zones. Yes, that’s right – zone’S’.

I had to do something when I topped the bathroom scales at 102 kg. Loaded myfitnesspal.com to monitor every scrap of food and drink passing my lips. The only way I could eat that which I felt like eating required enough exercise to add to my daily allowance and still be on track for losing weight. I am now – after…

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Two surprises in one day.

Took myself for a long walk to clock up my 6000 steps goal. Rested at a bus shelter on the way home, (via West Terrace Cemetery) and there on the bench, was a book. I thought someone had lost it, but a label attached states

“Books on the Rail, take me home, read me, return me for someone else to enjoy.”

So… I now have a copy of Finding Nemo to enjoy.

Reaching the steps goal (taking it steadily)…

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New (ish) Year and a Fresh Start

Hopefully, 2018 will ind me a little more wise with my time and energy. For a while I had been running around like a headless chook (I will spare you a graphic) and not achieving much at all. Because as a person long retired who had allowed her retiring self to sink into doing as little as possible, I have only myself to blame. Now, I am on the verge of rewarding myself for some achievements. Firs…

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My Mondays at the Palace Nova, Eastend

Last week

Three Billboards Outside Missouri

followed by

All the Money in the World.

Today,

The Shape of Water followed by Breathe.

Halfway through a packet of Maltesers and I remembered I had intended constricting calories for today after fasting yesterday. May (hopefully) have walked them off.

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Clearing the desk uncovers a forgotten poem.

Tearing leaves from an old notebook, putting together a folder for the research necessary for the next book – the plot of which is REALLY shaping up – I came across a sheet used within a workshop run by David Chapple for Eyre Writers, Port Lincoln.

Against the prompts on the left side of the page I had filled the dotted lines, resorting to verse when under pressure. Here goes:

I grew up in…. Moun…

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