1) Get your current count.
2) Divide by 50,000.
3) Multiply by 100.
4) That is your NaNoWriMo percentage to targetI  I I

I must be at 400%  into my NaNoWriMo tally count.
then though I am disappointed I have not had a moment to write in my novel for 2 days.   Tonight I took care of the fact that I am slacking off on fitness and i went swimming then I was too tired to write my novel. This morning I had 8 small paid writing jobs to get though - got them all done.  They pay bills, novel writing is important as a long term goal. 

Yesterday i did book reviews for commission of book sales...that is another 'job' writers can do and i also entered a writing competition with a short story...another self employed writing job.  So I have done lots of writing for two days, also some fiction and non fiction reading but not a moment available for the novel even with working overtime and a 3am bedtime.  I really must stay out of chats lol...I must find time to write and exercise, but I will pop in as often as I can and I will keep up with my  blogging :-)

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Finish Your Book! a Time Management Guide for Writers By Karen Hodges Miller, Lorette Pruden

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The Help By Kathryn Stockett
Format:Paperback, 464 pages  Highly recommended reading.

Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and, white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared. Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another. Each is in a search of a truth. And together they have an extraordinary story to tell...

My Review.
This is a book I read while writing my Australian cross culture, Dreaming Billabong series with an interest as The Help was written about the 1060's period of civil rights as one of my novels is written in the decade before, the 1050's and I plan to write a novel about the 1960's in Australia. This is a time I remember well, I was aware of all the civil right struggles.  The book is excellently written, highly interesting from beginning to end.  The characters highly believable.  I highly recommend 'The Help.'

About the Author
Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama, she moved to New York City, where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughter. This is her first novel.

Reviews
The other side of Gone with the Wind - and just as unputdownable Sunday Times
A big, warm girlfriend of a book The Times Harper Lee's classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird has changed lives. Its direct descendent The Help has the same potential...an astonishing feat of accomplishment Daily Express
Outstanding, immensely funny, very compelling, brilliant Daily Telegraph
Daring, vitally important and very courageous, I loved and admired The Help. Fantastic -- Marian Keyes
A laugh-out-loud, vociferously angry must-read Marie Claire
Touching, disgraceful, funny. Highly recommended Daily Mail

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The Protectors
A Journey Through Whitefella Past
By Stephen Gray
Stolen Generation


On 13 February 2008 Kevin Rudd and Brendan Nelson gave two very different apology speeches to the Stolen Generations.

Rudd alluded to racism, eugenics and the immorality of past policies.

Nelson spoke of benign intentions, goodness and the hurt felt by those accused of wrongdoings.

Both cannot be true - or could they?

Powerful and provocative, this is a beautifully written and very personal exploration of a little acknowledged part of Australian history - the role and motivations of the administrators and patrol officers who carried out these 'protection' policies.

The questions Stephen Gray raises about guilt, judgement and good intentions apply as readily to the complexities of black/white relations today as they did one hundred years ago.

This is an intelligent book that challenges how we judge the past and asks what exactly it was that the Australian nation said sorry for. It is a fresh contribution to white Australia's perennial search for national identity - an identity we need to now assert against the darker facts of our history on the continent.

Stolen Girl
Stolen Generation
By Trina Saffioti and Norma MacDonald

Stolen Girl is a fictionalised account of the now universally known story of the Stolen Generation and tells of an Aboriginal girl taken from her family and sent to a children's home.

Each night she sings, and dreams of her mother and the life they once shared of sitting on the verandah of their corrugated-iron home, cooking damper and hunting goanna. But each morning she is woken by the bell to the harsh reality of the children's home, until finally one day she puts into action her carefully crafted plan - unlocking the door and taking her first step back towards home.

Stolen Girl gives young readers an insight into the life of a child taken away from everything they know into an alien world without love. It captures the depth of emotion that was felt by thousands of Australians during this dark chapter in the nation's history.

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Stories of the Stolen Generations
Stolen Generation Insights
By Marji Hill

Stolen Generations  By Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster

Upper Primary A Unit 4
Stolen Generation Shaping Our Nation : Stories of Stolen Generations

The Apology Stolen Generation  Saying Sorry to the Stolen Generations (Tell Me a Story About Australia)  By Marji Hill

Books » History » Oceania » Australia & New Zealand
Being Australian  Narratives of National Identity
By Catriona Elder

After a century of speculation by writers, filmmakers, travelers and scholars, being Australian' has become a recognisable shorthand for a group of national characteristics. Now, in an era of international terrorism, being seen as un-Australian' has become a potent rhetorical weapon for some, and a badge of honour for others.

Catriona Elder explores the origins, meaning and effects of the many stories we tell about ourselves, and how they have changed over time. She outlines some of the traditional stories and their role in Australian nationalism, and she shows how concepts of egalitarianism, peaceful settlement and sporting prowess have been used to create a national identity. Elder also investigates the cultural and social perspectives that have been used to critique dominant accounts of Australian identity, including ideas of class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and race.

She shows how these critiques have been, in turn, queried in recent years. Being Australian is an ideal introduction to studying Australia for anyone interested in understanding Australian society, culture and history. A clever work: incisive and original. At a time when Australian identity....

Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Stories in the making1 Imagining nations: Telling national tales
2 The working man is everywhere: Class and national identity
3 The invisible woman: Gender and nation
4 Populate or perish: Sexuality and nation
5 White Australia meets multiculturalism: Ethnicity and nation
6 The myth of terra nullius: Indigeneity and nation

Part 2: Ways of being Australian
7 The cultural nation: Art, cinema and music
8 The heart of the country: Place, space and land
9 The land of the long weekend: Public holidays and national events
10 Taking to the streets: National uses of public spaces
11 Backyards and barracking: The everyday in Australia
12 Australia on display: Museums, heritage and the national capitalReferencesIndex

Books » Nonfiction » Social Sciences » Anthropology » Cultural
Elders Wisdom from Australia's Indigenous Leaders
By Peter McConchie (Photographs by)

This is an important book, whose content is unlike any other. It is about indigenous peoples and their traditional and contemporary ways of living. Elders is a series of chapters authored by tribal elders from around Australia. Each chapter describes an important aspect of contemporary tribal life, and the elder speaks on behalf of his or her tribe - explaining what rituals they hold to, what understandings of the world they have.

They talk about subjects such as The Land, The Sea, Spirit, Law, Family, Healing, Ceremony, Song, and Hunting. Peter McConchie has travelled to the far corners of the continent to listen and record what elders have to say. They speak simply and movingly, and visually stunning photography supports their words. Elders is a book to appeal to the widest possible audience. It is the most representative account of Aboriginal people's lives, culture and beliefs in book form.

Table of Contents1. Healing; 2. The land; 3. Hunting; 4. Gathering; 5. Family; 6. Lore/law; 7. Spirit; 8. The sea; 9. Ceremony and song.

About the AuthorPeter McConchie is an internationally renowned professional photographer who has spent much of his working life travelling the world. Since returning to his native Australia in 1997 he has devoted himself to working within indigenous culture and the environment. His previous books include Yolngu Mali: Aboriginal Spirit and Australia - Beyond Any Price.

Reviews'Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are of the Land and Sea. We fit into it, we are shaped by it. Our teaching comes from the Earth itself, by knowing the Mangrove, how deep its story, or the Eucalypt tree, where does it go down to, what level. Knowing the earth is the centre of our wisdom.

Among us there have been no written laws; our traditions are passed down through the spoken word from one generation to the next. Unity, not division, sharing rather than hoarding is our way. So now, we write to you in your language with our timeless wisdom.

Learn from us, as we have had to learn from you.' Mandawuy Yunupingu 'With a wonderful book like this, one wishes that it could be a thousand pages long and that Elders from every nation and every clan within Australia and the Torres Strait Islands could be listened to and their knowledge made available to all. To the Elders not included, an apology is made.

Within this book there are seventeen Elders who speak for their country. In doing so they speak about a universal knowledge that connects us and belongs to us all. These pages contain the true voice of the land and the sea.' Lowitja O'Donoghue