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©2017 Charlene Brown
Here are some
highlights of a review of 1150 Words in 2017 and my plans this blog in 2018:
·
Travel journaling: I completed a project begun in 2016 to expand
on the sketches and paintings my grandchildren and I produced during the trips
I took with them between 2004 and 2013.
There were 30 blog posts in total which I compiled, with additional
photographs, into a 29-page booklet.
·
Clean energy haiku/haiga project: I have produced 50 poems using ‘found’ haiku
and computer-stylized versions of landscape paintings from all the Provinces
and Territories of Canada. So far I
have compiled 14 of these illustrated poems, with a plan to include up to 50, in
a book, ‘Inventing the Future with Clean Energy Haiku.’
·
I attended
a workshop in Writing for Children at Camosun College here in Victoria, during
which I completed a first draft of the first chapter of a YA novella. I hope to
complete a first draft of the whole book in 2018. The illustrations will be
computer-generated.
·
My blog
metadata indicates that in 2017 I added 20 archaeology-related blog posts to the 77 posts I’d written previously. Three of these were from Virtual Paintouts, two from a trip to Ireland with my daughters, ten from a trip to Iran with the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and five from My Travels with Our Grandkids. I plan to begin compiling the ones I like
into an archaeological review.
