Lola Dupré

 

Really neat stuff see more here

Taylor Swift does Coldplay

Rain Soaked Windshield

Gregory Thielker's Photorealistic Paintings via

Someday you'll write a book

November is National Novel Writing Month

NaNo in a Nutshell

What: Writing one 50,000-word novel from scratch in a month's time. 
Who: You! We can't do this unless we have some other people trying it as well. Let's write laughably awful yet lengthy prose together.

Why: The reasons are endless! To actively participate in one of our era's most enchanting art forms! To write without having to obsess over quality. To be able to make obscure references to passages from our novels at parties. To be able to mock real novelists who dawdle on and on, taking far longer than 30 days to produce their work.
When: You can sign up anytime to add your name to the roster and browse the forums. Writing begins November 1. To be added to the official list of winners, you must reach the 50,000-word mark by November 30 at midnight. Once your novel has been verified by our web-based team of robotic word counters, the partying begins.
Where: You write wherever you’d like. On your computer, on your iPad, on a typewriter---anywhere is fine, just as long as you’re writing! For a more in-depth NaNoWriMo overview, visit the devilishly handsome "What is NaNoWriMo?"and "How NaNoWriMo Works" pages.

Visit  http://www.nanowrimo.org/ for more info, peptalks, nano history,and to sign up!

While you can't start writing until November first you are encouraged to plan, research, outline, and prep your story! Some writing links:
How to up-the-stakes for your main character by Victoria Lynn Schmidt
Outling your Novel: How and Why  by Joanna Penn
Characters   from Cornerscribe
Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions by Patricia C. Wrede from SFWA
Plotting your Novel by Lee Masterson
Daily Writing Tips
Novel Writing Help
fmwriters

Jello Blood Worms from The Idea Room

Aren't these awesome. Check out the tutorial at The Idea Room

Fabric Acorns

These are so cute. I love acorns. They are the heart of an oak tree. I am going to make some of these maybe for the November book display.

Make Fabric Acorns  A tutorial by Sara of Zemphira

I love lightbulb terrariums!

 

The above is from MossTerrariums Etsy store

found these on yiddlenet

The four above all come from the fern and mossery. They even have cute earrings. They also have a tutorial for lightbulb terrariums.
 another Tutorial

The Way of Kings: Book One of The Stormlight Archive

From the Back Cover
I long for the days before the Last Desolation.
The age before the Heralds abandoned us and the Knights Radiant turned against us. A time when there was still magic in the world and honor in the hearts of men.
The world became ours, and we lost it. Nothing, it appears, is more challenging to the souls of men than victory itself.
Or was that victory an illusion all along? Did our enemies realize that the harder they fought, the stronger we resisted? Perhaps they saw that the heat and the hammer only make for a better grade of sword. But ignore the steel long enough, and it will eventually rust away.
There are four whom we watch. The first is the surgeon, forced to put aside healing to become a soldier in the most brutal war of our time. The second is the assassin, a murderer who weeps as he kills. The third is the liar, a young woman who wears a scholar's mantle over the heart of a thief. The last is the highprince, a warlord whose eyes have opened to the past as his thirst for battle wanes.
The world can change. Surgebinding and Shardwielding can return; the magics of ancient days can become ours again. These four people are key.

One of them may redeem us.

And one of them will destroy us.

From the Cover Flap
Widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time saga, Brandon Sanderson now begins a grand cycle of his own, one every bit as ambitious and immersive.
Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.
It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars are fought for them, and won by them.
One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.
Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by overpowering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.
Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under the eminent scholar and notorious heretic Jasnah Kholin, Dalinar's niece. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.
The result of more than ten years of planning, writing, and worldbuilding, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.

Speak again the ancient oaths,

Life before death.

Strength before weakness.

Journey before destination.

and return to men the Shards they once bore.

The Knights Radiant must stand again.

Brandon Sanderson is one of the authors I get really excited about. Not only is this a huge book but the first in a 10 volume series. YAY! I really enjoyed it. Some questions were answered but so many more were asked. I am excited about this journey!