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A couple days ago my blog had forty-seven hits. I was delighted. The old blog continues to average two hundred hits a day, but this one has not caught up. The next day it had one hundred ten. I was thrilled. The day after that, it had two. Huh. Ah well. Big news! I finished […]
I’m done. And not in a good way. It’s 2330. I’ve been up since the roofers got on the roof at about 0600. I’ve screwed around with Twitter, looked at lolcats, done some laundry, and oh, hey, I actually wrote 600 some words. Not sure how many–if any–I’ll keep, but I did write them. Cleared
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I pushed on to the end, and got all the revisions in the computer. I’m very happy. There’s still one chapter I need to fix (it’s about three pages long, it needs to be at least five) but then I’m DONE!! wOOt!!! On looking back, I see I did pretty well this summer. I finished
The rain came again. It avoided the office this time, though, to drip happily into Bly’s bedroom (down the wall and onto her alarm clock) and mine (pouring onto the floor and dripping on my new comforter!) I never finished the last six pages of One-Pass Revision. I was pondering adding some five pages to
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I hate the way when I have a time limit–we’re going grocery shopping in an hour, or I’m going back to work in a week–I just can’t seem to do anything. Deadlines are fine.ย I can work to a deadline.ย A very good thing, since I want a writing career.ย But limits?ย Limits get me.
Guess it’s time for a progress report, eh? Well, I’m editing page 86 of 111 of the Flame manuscript. When I’m not depressed about the end of my vacation or the fact that I haven’t heard from Tor yet (yes, it’s been just over a month and the response time is four to six months.
Sometimes you just have to let the muses play. Like when you’ve been trying for two days to get through one lousy scene, and they just keep hauling you off to look up sailing terms or search for The Bourne Ultimatum trailers. (here are two) At such times, letting go can really help. So I