Awesome Metal fans in Germany

August 6, 2014August 6, 2014 ~ Chris McHart ~ Leave a comment

Last weekend 75,000 Metal fans visited Wacken to celebrate the Wacken: Open: Air 2014.

Now, when you think of Metal fans, you think of everything, but not blood cancer. But then, when you think about one of the biggest Metal Open Airs, you wouldn’t think of a small town in Germany. But the citizens of Wacken are helping to organize this event, and it’s one of the most beautiful, and most peaceful around the world.

This year there was an unusual action during Wacken 2014:

A huge typing campaign in the fight against blood cancer. The daughter of one of the initiators is sick, and she needs a donor in order to survive. Maybe one of the thousands that were willing to get registered is a fitting blood match, and she has a chance. I hope so.

I just find it awesome to use such a festival to reach so many people and find some potential donors, even if it was held because of personal reasons. The database of potential donors has now thousands of new blood examples. If only one person can be saved now, great. Even more? Better.

I wish the girl all the best. May they find a fitting donor.

And if you think about visiting Wacken 2015, it’s already sold out. 🙂

Chris

Back on track

August 2, 2014August 2, 2014 ~ Chris McHart ~ Leave a comment

I’m back on track. Last week was quite busy, I finished the first round of edits on Never Wrong. Seems like there’s a problem if you use different writing programs, since this can screw up the formatting. I learned this the hard way, since I went twice through my manuscript, only to get an email from my editor, telling me it got screwed up again.

Needless to say, I now have the same program that she uses.

This week, I also did make a nice bundle of a new manuscript, a synopsis and my query letter, and sent it! I’ll keep you up to date.

My first novel (working title: more) gives me a little trouble right now. I’m some 16000 words in it, and it doesn’t work the way it should do. I’m in the middle of creating a mindmap to find the problems.
I hope I can show it to you soon. And present the new novel. 🙂

Wish you all a good time!

I’m going to clean some mushrooms now, since my husband brought some from the woods

Chris

About happiness

July 24, 2014 ~ Chris McHart ~ Leave a comment

I got tagged by my friend Amelia Bishop, a fellow writer, on facebook. I should list three things every day that make me happy. Today was number two, and I realized something.

It’s usually a small thing that makes me happy. A smile, a gesture. We often see the things that don’t go as planned, but we rarely take the time to just be grateful for what we have, what makes us happy.

Look every day for things that make you happy, and you’ll see so much more. I’m grateful for all the small gifts we get every day, like a tomato from my greenhouse. Cherish it.