Monthly Archives: January 2012

(personal/to-do) Three day weekends rock!

I love three-day weekends, because I can do something Saturday, and Sunday just relax, then do more stuff on Monday and still not stress.  Yesterday was my writer’s group, and I got some really good feedback on my stuff.  More on that later.  But today, as it’s so freaking cold out, I’m going to snuggle …

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(writing) Just keep swimming…

I’ve just successfully completed Day 11 of the challenge over at www.750words.com – basically, it’s a month-long challenge of writing 750 words or more.  I use the site for my morning pages – not really to write, but to brain dump for that day, before I actually begin my writing.  It’s a practice that I’ve …

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(guest post) A great guest post by JA Marlow on resolutions

What a treat I have for you guys today!  JA Marlow, a good friend of mine, has agreed to join us and talk about resolutions.  What better for January?  So read her post, and then go check out her stuff! 2012 Resolutions – Be Brave With the start of a new year it is common …

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(writing) Musings on writing

I’ve been doing morning pages for five days now over on www.750words.com and I’m starting to see the results already.  Morning pages are something that Julia Cameron talks about in The Artist’s Way, which I highly recommend – basically, it’s a brain dump of writing, just writing anything for 15 minutes, or 3 pages, or (in …

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(goals/recap) In with the new, out with the old

2012 is here.  2011 has left.  While it wasn’t as bad a year for me as it was for some of my friends, I’m not sorry to see it go.  It’s a new year, and that means a chance to look at what I’ve done in the past year, and what will be happening in …

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