Writing Life

The life most real to me. As evidenced by the preponderance of posts.

Progress? Who, Me?

Actually, yes, there is progress. One, and most important, I’m down to 693 pages. Yay! All that hard work is paying off… Two, it has been decided that I don’t need to move yet. The powers that be have decided that maybe it wouldn’t be in the best interests of my daughter to make me […]

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Sensible is so Dull…

C.J. Cherryh’s word count goes up, in her blog. My page count goes down. But for both of us, it’s progress. I’m told next time I won’t write so flabby, if only because I don’t want to have to trim again. I hope that’s true! So. The official page count as of this evening is

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Real, Schmeal! Time to Get to WORK!!

Yes, I’m aware it’s Mother’s Day. I’m aware I’m a mom. I’m aware the common wisdom holds that I should not have to work today. To hell with that, I say! I should be able to work on what I WANT to do! That said, brunch was lovely. If I can figure out how my

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Reality, Day One

And here it is, the evening of day one of my resolve to get real. So I’ll tell you what I’ve really been doing all day, when I could have been writing, editing, or cleaning my house. You guessed it, I spent way too much time reading C.J. Cherryh’s Progress Report. I did mention I

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Editing is Not Fun

It’s true, editing is not fun. Except when I forget I’m editing, and get lost in my story. It’s a damn good story, actually. But then I’m not really editing, am I? Whatever I’m doing, my story has gone from 914 ms pages to 700. It’s a good thing. I’ve set a goal (yet again)

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I Did Too!

I did blog recently! I did! And I hit “save and publish.” Where it went after that is anyone’s guess. It sure isn’t on top of my blog! Ah well. The gremlins must have their fun. It could certainly be worse. (Knock on wood. If I can find any real stuff…) I’m quitting smoking yet

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Random Scenes

Umm…I’m going to pretend yesterday didn’t happen. I have this urge to remove it, and this other urge to send it to all the uncaring people meddling with my family right now. So I’ll ignore it, and go back to my light chatter now. Please carry on. I’ve always avoided reading more than one book

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