FRIENDS ONLY BECAUSE I AM NOT DOING SO WELL... IF YOU WANNA READ, YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO.

I found this on someone else's site, went and calculated my own, and this is what I have in terms of weight loss in the last week. 15 pounds! I'm still fasting. I'm actually feeling like maybe I should just never stop fasting. Just keep going until I absolutely can't go anymore. That's a stupid, dangerous idea - I know this. I'll just have to see ( Read more... )

NO FRUIT - NO SWEET VEGGIES................CUT THINGS INTO AS SMALL PIECES AS POSSIBLE and EAT SMALL BITES SLOWLY

Raw broccoli 5 spears = 11 cals
Raw Spinach 1 leaf = 2 cals
1 medium sized pickle = 12 cals
Lettuce - 1 leaf = 1 cal

1 cup vegetable broth 15 cals... double check every time for each brand of course.

1 tbsp balsamic vinegar = 10 cals
tuna 70 ( Read more... )

One of the key things to writing anything is to pull the reader in with the first sentence, the first paragraph, and to leave them gasping for more by the end of the first section ( Read more... )

In no particular order:

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

aka

An American Crime

The Basketball Diaries

Bastard Out of Carolina

Beautiful Thing

Boot Camp

Boy's Don't Cry

The Breakfast Club

Brothers of the Head

The Butterfly Effect

The Cell

Dear Frankie

El Bola/Pellet

Evelyn

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Frailty

Gracie's Choice

The Hamiltons

Hannibal Rising

The ( Read more... )

I read, or heard, somewhere that to make writing as clear and powerful as possible one should take out as many descriptive '-ly' adjectives as one can.

I think this is valuable information. Of course, everyone's style is their own and does not have to stick to these guidelines at all (becasue there is no problem with telling  a 'ly'... sorry, lame ( Read more... )

I am behind on everything. I have far too many words for my short story and not enough for the long one. I wrote the short, and it became 27000 words, then I cut it back down to about 9000 and it keeps threatening to go up every time I revise to take things out. The story is a little mixed up because I tried to condense the good ideas from 27000 ( Read more... )

I am  actually over 8000 words for the short story, and the rough draft of it is complete - and wiggy- and I am going to start editing it soon. I have some tips for editing that I am looking at. I am trying ot eventually make the ultimate editing technique guide thingamajig which I can use for everything (though half the fun is in the search and ( Read more... )

5,028 words

as of 11:49 pm

June 11, 2008

 4,091 short story.

6:22 pm now 4,514