Ten Week Plan, Update #1

I’d obviously hoped to do this sooner since it’s three weeks into the 10 week cycle (LOL). The 10 Week Plan is going fairly well. I am a little behind, but that’s due to a combination of issues outside my area of control. According to this week on my big calendar, I should be doing [...]

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The 10 Week Test

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As I get older (and wiser, I like to think), I notice a desiring trend to simplify life on all levels. Less clutter and junk in the house, less weight on the body, fewer unimportant things to worry about on a daily basis. I think this is a subconscious (and somewhat conscious) effort on my [...]

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You Can’t Always Get What You Want…

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…but if you try sometimes you just might find…you get what you need… Be glad I’m not really singing my Rolling Stone-pilfered lyrics. It sounds prettier in your head, trust me. Two weeks ago, sitting at my desk while my middle school darlings watched the movie version of the book they’d just finished, I practically [...]

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Resolutions…ha!

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I’m not a fan of the New Year’s Resolution craze. As a kid, I think I was sucked in to the mystical glamor of thinking that the first day of a new year is somehow more special than the remaining 364, but after numerous “resolution” failures, I adopted my dad’s favorite holiday phrase: It’s just [...]

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Post-NaNoWriMo, Day 2: More than a Manuscript

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Just a note: I’d hoped to blog frequently during my NaNoWriMo experience, but, as anyone who’s done it successfully will tell you (wish I’d have known!), your brain sorta turns to mush as you write and logical thought processes often take a back seat to the actual creative writing. Over the next few days, I’ll [...]

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Post-NaNoWriMo, Day 1: It’s Not About The Novel

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Just a note: I’d hoped to blog frequently during my NaNoWriMo experience, but, as anyone who’s done it successfully will tell you (wish I’d have known!), your brain sorta turns to mush as you write and logical thought processes often take a back seat to the actual creative writing. Over the next few days, I’ll [...]

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FYI–I’m a winner!

Guess who just nailed 50,000 words in a month? Yep. And I’ve lots of stories to tell about the journey. For now, my mushy brain needs a little rest… Share and Enjoy:

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NaNoWriMo Planning, Day 2: Pants Not Welcome

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If you had a chance to read yesterday’s post, How I’m Planning for NaNoWriMo, you’ll know I’m working out my master plan for attacking my first NaNoWriMo in ten short days. What you may not know, if you’ve not read much of the rest of my blog, is the dirty little writing secret that could [...]

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Planning NaNo Now

Initially, I’d planned to save any discussion of NaNoWriMo til next week, but I figured any post here is a good post….since I’ve been slacking. Yeah, I’m doing the NaNo thing. No, really this time. Not that I’ve tried in the past–I haven’t. Evidently, somewhere along the line in 2006 I thought I would, because [...]

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Which Came First: Reading or Writing?

I think my brain is changing. Not in a bad way, mind you. I’ve always been forgetful regarding things I don’t feel are important to me, but I’m not talking mechanics and function here. I’m talking preference. Literary preference. For as long as I had a job of sorts (starting way back in jr. high [...]

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