My Old Hobby Revived

[derosa]

Everyone needs a hobby of some sort to get them through life in general. I lean towards woodworking, just picked up 4 boards to build a crib for a friend, had the rest of the wood already. In general I work with power tools but when life is flying and the head is filled with too much clutter getting out the hand tools and watching the shavings make nice see through curls as they come off the hand plane is a thing of beauty that clears the mind. Scotland produced some of the nicest handplanes you could ever want along with England but unfortunately I don't own any of those.
Good luck in your writing, I'd tried doing it some when I was younger as well but I didn't enjoy what I wrote so I stopped.

[Tarheel]

I also write as a hobby. My last (unintentional) public piece can be found in a google search with the key words: Ingram, hands, letter, Obama. It was a letter written in 2009 but will soon be an entry in a book by Jeanie Marie Laskas released this September.

I am better at shopping lists and notes to the wife though. I'd like to read more of your words if you'd agree to that.

[Baeau]

Trying my hand at writing (& illustrating), again. Reviving a long put aside project.

[Profane James]

Y’all should check out the ‘worst puns’ thread. There are some very talented people here!

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...st-puns-89474/

[jumary]

Thanks for starting this thread. This image from the cover of my book Anabar's Run is from a well known spot in Scotland. Anyone recognize it?

[PatrickHughes123]

Okay, a little update. I've just finished the first draft and have begun the second draft. It is going great so far, I'm padding it out more, developing the characters more, fixing certain things, reorganizing it. This is not the polishing draft, that will be the third or maybe even the forth. May have to do another fixing draft after the second. The first was the bare bones draft.