Adventures Up North

Not all of us enjoy music when writing.  But some of us don't like absolute silence either.  Sometimes, an ambient sound mixer is exactly what we need. :) Basically, an ambient sound mixer or background noise generator is an online tool that plays an ordinary ambient sound, usually one long track or a few tracks playing together.  You can usually mix these yourself, with simple sliders to adjust the sound volume of each track playing.  I find these sound mixers extremely calming, stress-relieving, and (most importantly) they help me concentrate when writing.  Here's a list of my absolute favorite online ambient sound mixers: #1: Rainy Mood.   Rainy Mood might be the most popular on this list, but in all truthfulness, it's probably my least personal favorite.  This is mainly because I find the sound of a thunderstorm rather depressing, and also rather out-of-place if it's sunny outside.  But this is a very popular and high-quality ambient sound...

Hi guys, happy Saturday! :D So I was having a pretty rotten Wednesday earlier this week, and then I got this Twitter notification from the awesome Katelyn Buxton , saying she tagged me in this Q&A Tag I've been seeing around.  Yay!  Thanks, Katelyn, for saving my Wednesday.  Katelyn has become one of my new favorite Tweeps over the last week, and her blog is incredible as well.  Check her out, right away.  Don't make me use a Jedi mind trick. Alright, so this is the Q&A Tag!  Rules: -Tag the Blogger(s) who have nominated you -Answer the questions you were given -Nominate 10 bloggers -Write out your 10 questions -Let them know they’ve been tagged So let's get started! :) 1.  Coffee or tea? Tea.  Coffee is fine, some of the time, but tea is just more likely to suit my mood more often.  Especially vanilla chai tea, or iced tea. :) 2.  If you could only listen to one album of music for the rest of your life, what wou...

Today is blogger's choice, which means I can talk about whatever I want!  Mwahahahahaha... But we're still talking about writing today!  Kinda.  Sorta.  Not really. I don't know about you, but I am one of those people who has a really hard time getting things done.  Like important things.  I am a world-class procrastinator.  I'm also terrible with mental to-do lists (I always forget everything).    So one of the best ways to combat that, I have found, is to make a list of my monthly goals.  This is similar to quarterly goals (which is probably more common that monthly goals) but I find monthly goals much more attainable than quarterly goals for some reason.  I guess for me, three whole months allows too much time for procrastination, whereas with a month, you only have 30ish days to finish the list.  That just works better for me. So here's how I like to prepare and accomplish my monthly goals!  I thought this ...

So on Saturday morning I woke up, turned my computer on, opened all my usual websites (Facebook, Youtube, Pinterest), turned on some music, and finally opened Blogger.  That's when it hit me. WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?! I had completely forgotten that I needed to write a blog post (in case you didn't catch it already, I'm blogging every Saturday).  And I put off writing one until today because I felt so guilty.  So I'm completely doing an impromptu post, and it might be a big mess.  Just a warning. Last week was crazy, let me tell you.  Now, that's no excuse for being late, but just so you know, I do have reasons. So today I thought would be a good time to just write a quick post about me, my life, and what this will blog will be about. So first up, me.  Here's me in a nutshell: -I'm Luke Hartman. -I'm a high school Senior. -I live in Northern Wisconsin. -I have two amazing parents, an older brother named Ben, and a little 11-year-old cat named...