ROW80 Sunday Progress and Russians?

This week, I discovered my main character, Sandra Robertson, is a bit of a hiker. It's fun to set her loose on my favorite walks around Edinburgh (Royal Mile and Arthur's Seat). She's also excited to visit Edinburgh Castle and Holyrood Palace, as well as local museums and other historic neighborhoods. When we get home, I'm pulling my travel journals and photos!

Even as we close in on leaving Merida (just 2 days left before we hop on that plane back to snowy Spokane), I'm still spending about 2 hours a day on plotting,research, and character development. I've never worked this much on plotting ahead of writing, and am eager to get those 3x5 cards up on my corkboard back home.

Today we walked about 2.5 miles to the artisan's market, hoping to find those crafty gifts for friends back home. As we strolled through the Central Plaza, a troupe of dancers and a puppet master entertained the Sunday crowd.

Folk Dancers, Merida (February 2018)

ROW80 Check-in SUMMARY. Wrote 7/7 days on 750words.com for a total of 4,131 (goal 2,500) words, most a combination of plotting, research on black market antiquities scandals, and character descriptions for The Seventh Tapestry. Read 7 ROW80 writers (goal 8). Wrote a puppy poem for ROW80 and revised another poem on Merida (history). Did some interesting research on marketing/reviews as part of getting ready to be back home. Didn’t participate in this Weds SNIPpet.

READING THIS WEEK: Yasmine Galenorn’s appealing Legend of the Jade Dragon, single mother of two with witchy tendencies faces disaster with a cursed jade figurine; Libby Howard’s cozy mystery, The Tell All (Locust Point Mystery); and Amy Gamet’s Hero Force (3 book set).

Just a thought about the Russians: My three blogs are hosted by Blogger. One of the features they give us is the ability to look at traffic sources and audience in a global map. I do look at these occasionally, so earlier this week, I was shocked to see 346 hits (views) from Russia on one of my blogs. Why? Even today, I got 126 new hits from Russia. So I'm wondering if this is an anomaly, a glitch in Blogger's tracking program, OR something else. I know technology continues to change . . . but why on earth would my little blog pick up so many views? Anyone else check where their readers/visitors are coming from?

That's it for this week. The week ahead will be busy, intense, full of change. I most likely will not check in on Weds as we'll be heading for the airport about 6am and arriving home (in a different time zone +2 hours) at about 11 pm. So, have a great week and know that I'm thinking about you!

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