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Day 4
I am so soo tired and tomorrow I gotta get up at 4:30 to go running--I was using those excuses as to why I shouldn't write tonight. But I made it. I'm sitting in bed with mhy laptop and my chai tea. I'll just do three hundred words--the same as yesterday. -
Day 3 and I met my
Yeah!!! iwrote my 300 words. They suck. but i wrote. Good night -
Day3--I made it to the computer but will i get anything done
Crazy day filled with responsibilies and mother stuff, but it's 11 pm, I have my spiced chai and I'm in front of the computer. Will i reach my 300 word count? I'll let ya know ( Read more... ) -
Day 2
Today was a busy day. I drove to Missouri with my little sister to pick up a dog. On the way there, my check engine light came. GASP!! There is nothing visibly or aubibly wrong with the car as far as I can tell, so I'm hoping when I take it to the mechanic they'll say "oh it's just some minor thing" and then send me on my way ( Read more... ) -
Day One of thirty days to more descriptive writing.
I'm trying to write my first page scene. I have no idea how to do this, so lets start with one of my favorite author bloggers Alexandrea Sokoloff's Visual Storytelling - Part 1. Some of the most interesting excerpts are below:
One thing I’ve noticed about beginning writers’ writing is that they almost always fail to set up a chapter visually. ( Read more... ) -
Unhappiness, thy name is thesis?
My thesis excerpt was due on November 15 and I am just now starting. big deal. better late than never, right. Well we'll see. A big part of me just doesn't want to do it. I just want to be a regular person who works, goes home to her family, and is completely happy. But you know what? That little thing that I was missing, which made me want to fill ( Read more... ) -
Sunken Costs????
So I've been losing the war. Big surprise huh? Well, I won a major ( Read more... ) -
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Ok, it 11:54. I'm finito. it took thirty minutes longer than yesterday because i was messing with utube and chatting with guy. tsk,, tsk... I missed the ten page mark, so the battle was mostly won by resistance. But i'll for sure win tomorrow's battle. MARk my words Resistance. I will not let you get away with such tyranny again.
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so... I had a really good lunch date which extended to a really good date day, so got almost no work done today. I have a good feeling about this guy. I'll try not to think to negative.
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The battle is over and I have won it. It may have taken me an hour and a half to get fighting, but I won the battle. And it took less than an hour. I guess it helps that I've gone over this part before. I'm actually going over it once more before I give to Richard for a critique since the last section I sent him got so much red. --jeez ( Read more... )