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Fun sentence

2009-11-24T19:03:17Z

Maybe tonight I'll post an FSotD or two from what I wrote very late last night. But I have to share this sentence I just read in a book called The Ghost Map, about a cholera outbreak in London in the 19th century: "But reports had surfaced of so...

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Done!

2009-11-22T23:35:14Z

I've finished my edits and e-mailed the new draft off to my agent. And I'm already uneasy that she won't think I made the changes she wanted the way she wanted. That feeling should fade once I start doing all the fun things I've been putting off...

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Help please -- I need a word!

2009-11-22T17:29:27Z

It's the last day I'm editing this novel manuscript and I'm still not happy with the way I've named this one secondary character's job. He works in a children's wish charity. There are other employees who do the fundraising and the communication...

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How to start off a Sunday

2009-11-15T14:50:53Z

Cinnabon Minibon and crispy bacon. Last time I was decadent, I just had the Minibon, but I got logey in the mid-morning because I hadn't had any protein. Problem solved this time. I'm now fueled to start another day of writing. 25 minutes on, ...

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FSotD

2009-11-14T20:59:35Z

I'm taking an extended break in my 25 minutes-on 5 minutes-off schedule today to post an FSotD to prove that I have been writing today! With the goatee grown in, David now looked like his own evil twin. (I stole this from real life -- the same ...

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Vaccination Day

2009-10-31T14:15:26Z

A week or so ago I decided to get the H1N1 vaccine. I have asthma and I'd been reading that of the people who wind up in ICUs with this flu, the worst hit are people with asthma. I live alone and I don't want to be sick and miserable and alone,...

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Some cat problems

2009-10-23T16:34:05Z

Here's a cat with a problem: Her name is Josephine, she's a sweet six-month old feral who was trapped for spaying and now turns out to be tame. She loves to have her head patted and rolls around on the floor of the recovery cage in bliss when yo...

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FSotDs

2009-10-18T20:33:54Z

A couple of hours in a coffee shop this afternoon got my mojo going on these polishes to my current novel manuscript (especially by having no free wireless internet accessible -- boy, does that help my productivity). Here's my first FSotD I had ...

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I can't resist

2009-10-15T19:13:51Z

Team Vox just posted: Today is Blog Action Day! Blog for Climate Change. If it would change the weather where I am today, I'd blog till my fingers were bloody. Oh, is that not what they meant?

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How sweet is this cat?

2009-10-15T17:50:19Z

Her name is Cole. She's adolescent kitten sized, but she's 2 or 3 years old. Look at that face! She came to me (trapped by another trapper) a couple of nights ago. She was spayed about a week ago and has turned out to be well on her way to soc...

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