by Nancy | Jan 17, 2011 | Research
I’ve been trying to improve on what little Dutch I know, mainly adding to my vocabulary. And I’ve discovered something baffling. Words that have an interesting sound are more likely to be retained. For instance, the word “fietsen” which means to bicycle. Now I don’t...
by Nancy | Aug 28, 2010 | Chasing Caterpillars, Research
Writing this part has been going well…until I realized I needed to address the slavery issue in Surinam in 1700. Stuck big time! It was not a good situation and I really didn't want to go into it. But I cannot ignore it since Maria Sybilla...
by Nancy | Apr 5, 2010 | Chasing Caterpillars, Miscellaneous, Research
Were there really no wells in Amsterdam in the late 1600s? While researching material for my book about Maria Sybilla Merian I realized that not once had I come across any reference to wells. Nothing was mentioned in the books I read. I had not...
by Nancy | Feb 6, 2010 | Writing
Today the participants of Jano celebrated with a party. A group of local writers, who liked the idea of writing for one month on a novel of our choice, but didn’t like doing it during the month of November, decided to do it in January. (So instead of Nano, we...
by Nancy | Feb 1, 2010 | Writing
Sleuths’ Ink, a mystery writers group I belong to, decided to spend a month in which each member (who chose to do so) would write a 50,000 word novel, but not in November when it’s usually done. We chose the “bare” winter month of January....
by Nancy | Jan 3, 2010 | Writing
I plan this year to finish the five major writing or writing related projects that I’ve been working on. One: complete the editing of my biography about the life and times of Maria Sybilla Merian, a woman who captured my heart because she played with...
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