So way back in 2011, I posted my manifesto. I put it in a document, picked out fonts I liked, and posted it around my house on purple paper. As with many things we see every day, eventually I barely noticed it. However, Erin Zarro is doing a Year of No Fear, and I want […]
And to all a good night. Tonight we ate at our kitchen table, potato soup that I made in my new Christmas crockpot (opened early, sue me.) It was delicious. The kid was a pain in the butt as she’s been so much lately, but it was still nice. After we watched A Muppet Christmas
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It’s vacation, it’s vacation! Two weeks of winter break, here at last! I’m the hap-happiest girl in the whole USA… Okay, I’ll stop singing. But seriously. I need this break so bad. I thought I was gonna shrivel up and die before we made it, but we finally all got out of there. The grades
Do you have that extra piece of furniture in your room? You know the one. In most of my bedrooms it’s been a chair. Once it was a desk, and another time just the top of my dresser, but it’s always there. In this bedroom, it’s my bed. Under that picture is the end of
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So life goes on. A bit of the sparkle is gone, but so is a lot of stress. I have a ton of things to do still, but I no longer need to stress about putting NaNo aside to do them–or about putting off more legitimate needs in order to self-indulgently NaNo. I actually read
That’s what happens when you don’t write enough due to various THINGS but you’re determined to win NaNo. You have a ten-thousand-word day. And then, if you really want to win and you’re really behind, you write more. And then you do it for two more days. I still need 16k, and it’s nearly ten
I’d thought I lost it. As I struggled with my words these past few days, I really started to think I’d lost it. That I’d run out of writing. You’d think I’d know better. I’ve written how many books now? I’ve actually lost track unless I stop to count on my fingers. I know I’ve
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