#majellaproject #campnanowrimo schedule and days

Monthly Calendar for July 2016: iCal
1-30 July 2016: three sessions of the Majella Project

Monthly Calendar for July 2016: iCal
10-31 July 2016: 1100; 1700; 2100 sessions of the Majella Project

At the moment I am very excited about the CampNaNoWriMo write in which is at 6pm Pacific Standard Time [the home of the Office of Letters and Light where NaNoWriMo is based].

On the first day of #campnanowrimo I wrote 2898 words of The Majella Project.

Started with the prompt I never thought I was so good at and filled in doctoring for the main character/protagonist Majella.

Sister Majella has been in a great many projects ever since she was a child and teenager in Albania.

A few years ago she started working for Doctors without Borders in Juba, South Sudan.

Her medical specialism is paediatric medicine.

I set three alerts to make me write: one for an hour before and the other for 15 minutes before the writing time.

Two other people in the cabin spoke up as well.

Now I must try to feed my mouse with BlueTooth ... the battery is so very very low.

Right now Majella is on a cruise in the Comoros. And I am thinking of her going to Swaziland too.

Respect and best wishes ...

Technical Work and #CampNaNoWriMo cabinmates

Rainforest Reload: four trees with orange trunks; one with a semiblue/semiwhite trunk

Hello again! This is the third post I've written this year. 

As an IT person once said to me, "Isn't it great when you have your own Mac at home?"

The technical difficulties first: on the 20th and 21st June I could not comment on other Blogger/Google blogs because there was a pull-down menu with an empty profile.

When I clicked on the pull-down profile I did not see my name or account. I could still get into Halfway up Rysy Peak and still write in and on my GooglePlus account, so where that applied, that is what I did.

A technical opportunity was the chance to try out the new StumbleUpon interface.

[I can still pull away from it if I want/have to through the Beta settings]

• Grids and lists are now standard for the profile pages

• The "Add this page" is now on the right - click on the button and paste the link in the dialogue box

• The toolbar is fresh and clean

• We can see now how many likes we have exactly [this for me is 85,500+]

• The lists are now in alphabetical order when things are first being sorted

• When adding to lists, they are still in chronological order

International Studies drawing. A butterfly; a hill; a pyramid and a Peruvian and lots of musical notes and staves

I personally created a new list - my first in the new system.

It was Small Beginnings - the series where Sophie Masson is interviewing writers.

Looking for a great new way to embed it:

• There is a "Report Bugs" feature in the profile menu.

• Notifications are neater and tidier - in the last release they were a bell symbol

• The "Contact Other Stumblers" interface is different

• The followers and following are now in alphabetical order rather than in chronological or frequency order

• In the grids there are now 10 pages/links in each row