Project: Sacrifices
New Words: 1,000
Present Total Word Count: 3,750 words
Goal: 125,000 words

Things Accomplished in Fiction: The word and page count doesn't look like much of a jump for a week, but I did finish the second chapter and start the third. So, I feel good, if only because I believe I did a serviceable job mapping out the action in the ( Read more... )

I missed Sunday's workout, as youngest daughter held a sleepover for Halloween and the girls camped out downstairs in the living room to watch movies. Volleyball tryouts ran long and left me exhausted (mostly mentally). Yesterday's phone problems at work, combined with the UWG meeting in the evening, kept me from knocking out Sunday's planned ( Read more... )

Project: Sacrifices
New Words: 750
Present Total Word Count: 1,500 words
Goal: 125,000 words

Things Accomplished in Fiction: I finished the first chapter this morning. The de Lint-King combo seems to work. Character introduction, feral dog attack, hints at strange behavior. Next chapters should flow from this point forward. I hope to get one more ( Read more... )

Yesterday's hectic schedule and late dinner made me choose to skip my Sunday workout. I made excuses, because I felt stuffed from the salad and risotto shrimp I had at Olive Garden ( Read more... )

As an addendum to #2 in the previous post, where I noted how it's necessary for me to perform the exercises correctly, for me to slow down, it's best if I don't directly watch the Jillian avatar ( Read more... )

Consider this a "cheat sheet" based on my experiences with the Jillian Michaels Fitness Ultimatum 2010 as I start an exercise regime.

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Project: Sacrifices
New Words: 250
Present Total Word Count: 750 words
Goal: 125,000 words

Things Accomplished in Fiction: I'm on the right track with my current approach. More show, leavened with character revelation.

Darling Du Jour: I’m not running away from anything. That’s not me. That’s Mom. She’s the one with a hole in her heart.



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We're hoping to go to Chicago in June for a family vacation and for a volleyball tournament. And then we're off to North Carolina for a high school graduation of one of Melissa's old students from Wines ( Read more... )

Despite feeling under the weather with the weeks-long cold (sinus infection, though diagnosis will come tomorrow), I hit the local Barnes & Noble on Saturday to catch jimhines at a signing. We hadn't met in person yet, so I figured this was a good chance ( Read more... )

Muse doesn't like cold medicine, but she's stuck with a medicated writer at the moment. What with moving eldest daughter back to school in the rain, getting thoroughly soaked running out in the thunderstorms Friday afternoon to retrieve the patio umbrella, and moving furniture around the house and doing some end-of-summer spring cleaning, my ( Read more... )