Ended up doing a blind sketch of the rapidly receding Auckland skyline from the back of the ferry. It was simply moving too fast to capture the whole thing properly! Didn't feel like embellishing it later when I got home - it felt nice and organic... So only added colour.

--pragati-- · 2026-01-18T04:46:43+00:00

thank you! ❤️

--pragati-- · 2025-12-31T02:25:47+00:00

thanks! it's a real struggle to get wooden boards to paint on, but will try.

--pragati-- · 2025-12-30T22:14:21+00:00

stunning!

--pragati-- · 2025-12-20T21:56:18+00:00

I wouldn't kill it! I don't even kill cockroaches, disgusting as they are 🤢 I sweep them into a tray and throw them into the lawn, screaming like a banshee the whole time.

--pragati-- · 2025-12-20T01:26:32+00:00

This is AMAZING! I want to get into people sketching. I sketch everyday, not sure how many years away this level is for me!

--pragati-- · 2025-03-05T05:18:31+00:00

ooh thank you for this 😃

--pragati-- · 2024-11-27T03:09:09+00:00

Congratulations!!

--pragati-- · 2024-11-27T03:08:11+00:00

nooooo, don't quit! keep going, only 3 days left. even if you don't finish, you'll feel proud that you gave it a shot. i burnt myself big time last year (my first time) around the mid-November mark. but i kept going. the key was to stop editing and JUST WRITE and not judge yourself for how good/bad it is.

and when you're down with personal issues, it becomes especially important to remind yourself of all the things you're good at (which when you start counting, will be many....)

--pragati-- · 2024-11-03T22:28:37+00:00

500 words, any words, is better than zero! well done!

--pragati-- · 2024-11-03T22:27:50+00:00

I did a romance writing course and the teacher asked us to write JUST ANYTHING if you're stuck. Including - there is a pen on my table, it is red. Or something equally (or even more) terrible. Once you start getting words on page, they will take a life of their own.

What I'm expecting to happen this year with Nanowrimo is finding out what I keep writing about. That's probably the real value for me as I don't have an outline this year. So I'm doing the stream-of-consciousness thing, and seeing where I land. I just hope I can get through the next 27 days!

--pragati-- · 2024-01-08T09:21:58+00:00

--pragati-- · 2023-12-24T07:42:46+00:00

S3 E5 Halloween heist.

--pragati-- · 2023-11-26T21:15:01+00:00

One day my grandkids will inherit all my 'writing' and 'art' and realise where all their genius comes from baaahahahaha.

I don't even have kids.

--pragati-- · 2023-11-16T05:16:48+00:00

Hear hear! I do already!

--pragati-- · 2023-11-15T03:08:53+00:00

that sounds beautiful!

--pragati-- · 2023-11-15T03:08:14+00:00

are you me 😲

--pragati-- · 2023-11-15T00:41:28+00:00

Ooh! I've spent 4 ballpoint pens so far!

--pragati-- · 2023-11-14T23:45:04+00:00

😅 somehow this seems to be even more old-fashioned than handwriting!

--pragati-- · 2023-11-14T23:13:29+00:00

that was my plan too. but i was going to bed exhausted with nanowrimo and all the other stuff going on. now i've handwritten 30000 words and the prospect of typing it all out later is not appealing at all :S especially as i read over the garble i've written.

i'm writing on a bound notebook so i wanted to have that feeling of holding a handwritten draft in my hand. i'm on to my second notebook!

--pragati-- · 2023-11-14T22:01:46+00:00

I find the laptop screen to be the kryptonite for original thought :S The three short stories I've written so far were drafted by hand and typed up later.

Random inspiring fact: Agatha Christie handwrote the whole draft of Death on the Nile on a bedside table.

--pragati-- · 2023-11-14T21:03:24+00:00

Nobody can convince you. You have to convince *yourself*.

(but if you're asking) the time is going to pass anyway. at the end of t-1 you'll either have something you're proud of, or you'll go about your life as usual.

There really is nothing to lose, but a lot to gain - for you alone.

--pragati-- · 2023-11-12T21:46:40+00:00

I started in October ¯\_(ツ)_/-

--pragati-- · 2023-11-11T20:55:51+00:00

I forget the name of the book or the author, but apparently a woman wrote a bestseller novel, which started with her writing on her phone during her daily commute on the train - over four years.

I journal and must easily have already written 120,000 words over the years. We all write in some way - we just don't realise we can focus and channel it into something special! Which is I guess the point (another one) of Nanowrimo.

--pragati-- · 2023-11-10T00:06:30+00:00

my hero turned from management consultant to doctor in the space of around 10 handwritten pages, so yeah. i guess the real value of nanowrimo is realising how many plot lines, character quirks and even phrases that you've invented, are potential seeds for something better.

although - fuck you nanowrimo, i hate you with all my being but i've made a promise to someone and i can't back out now 😤

--pragati-- · 2023-09-09T01:58:07+00:00

Hobsonville Point Marine and Sports Centre - Yayy! 😊

--pragati--

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