Sick? Then Don’t…

/ December 2, 2009

The last week has been filled with little sick bugs. Hubby was sick and once he came home from his business trip, I got it exactly three days later. And on Hubby’s birthday no less. I’m on the mend, but it’s slow. I’m an impatient sick person. Unless I’m on death’s door, I bitch and complain and will announce repeatedly

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November and the Art of Shitty First Drafts

/ November 16, 2009

Last night I completed my 50,000th word on my NaNoWriMo project – a yet to be titled urban fantasy. A lot of people would be jumping up and down at this point, but I’m keeping myself reserved for two big reasons: 1) I have at least 20,000 more words to go and 2) I know this is only the shitty

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How I Spend My Twitter Time

/ October 27, 2009

Instead of doing prewriting during office downtime today, I opted to play with Wordle. I first learned about this awesome app from my friend Danielle. Since then, it’s been popping up in the tweets and blogs of people I follow. Courtesy of TweetStats, I found out that I can make a word cloud with my Twitter account. What a terrific

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Musings

/ August 22, 2008

I’ve spent the past three days going over revisions of my completed manuscript. In the past three months the “phone book” has gone through about ten rounds of revisions. I’m more than ready to shuffle this thing off. I understand that revision is part of all processes: writing, business, cows (not really, I just needed a third thing), but it

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