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(writing) The current Honey-Dew list for 2012

For the rest of the year, here’s what I need/want to write: Novels: – Forgotten (Ghost Tales #1) Novellas: – Contemporary Romance (under pen name) – Tales of the Scorned Lady, Season 1 Short Stories: – A Princess, A Lizard and a Boatman – The Lonely Child Other Projects: – Advent Story #2 – Podcast …

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(personal/to-do/writing) Sunday is a recharge day.

Yesterday, I will admit, I did very little.  I fed my parents’ cats.  I wrote about 690 words on Forgotten.  I signed up for Camp NaNoWriMo.  And I watched the Red Sox lose again. *sigh*  But today, I have more I want to do. Before we get into that, though, I wanted to let you …

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(tgif) The day after…

No writing yesterday on Forgotten yesterday, but I wrote all the emails I needed to (now I just need to actually send them) and wrote the back cover copy for Spells, which I also need to email.  By the time I got home yesterday, my hands hurt so badly that I took some muscle relaxants …

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(personal/writing) Suck it up, buttercup (or the need to stop looking for excuses)

I haven’t posted much lately.  I haven’t really been writing, either – I’ve been stupidly busy, but that’s not an excuse.  I was listening to Nathan Lowell’s excellent #tommw podcast (http://www.nathanlowell.org/tommw/) and he talked recently about not making excuses for why he wasn’t writing – the fact that he had to stop doing that and …

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(writing/personal) Turning over a new leaf

I’m trying to make myself a little more accountable lately.  Hopefully, this time, the change will stick. Miles walked today: .87 (I walked 1.07 miles yesterday, so I’m not sure where I am.  I’ll figure it out for tomorrow’s blog.) Morning Pages: Day 63 – I’ve done two full months, and I think it’s finally …

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(updates/personal) Yep, still here. Not dead. At least, not yet.

I hate Daylight Savings time.  Just sayin’.   Also, I can’t update my website from work.  Nor can I look at Pinterest anymore (dammit!) and I can’t read my G+ stream.  I can post from my Google Reader to my G+ stream (don’t ask, our firewall is WEIRD) and I do have my phone, so …

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(metrics) Apparently Val does not know how to add…

Starting Word Count: 6966 Ending Word Count: 7568 New Words: 602 Starting Lines: “That happened in the crash?” I wondered how fast she’d been going when she hit the tree. Ending Lines: It hadn’t been; Marguerite herself came out to apologize for the lack. “It usually comes around 9 am, but for some reason, it’s …

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(metrics) Bloody ghosts and car crashes

Starting word count: 2326 Ending word count: 2903 New words: 577 Starting lines: He leaned on his cane, looking down at me, wry amusement and pain warring in his blue eyes. I didn’t recognize him, but he apparently recognized me. “Really, Sapph,” he continued, not bothering to extend a hand to me as I just …

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(to-do/writing/personal) Sundays are days of rest. Really.

Even when you don’t get home until 3:30 am from a ghost investigation – it’s still a day of rest.  A day to catch up on Once Upon a Time (my new favorite show, next to Castle and Bones), write, do laundry and dishes, and just renew myself.  I really do like this new schedule …

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(personal/writing/to-do) I’ve been quiet, but I’ve been busy

It’s been a busy week!  Go live at my new job, writing busily on Forgotten, and starting to look for a house.  Yes, we’re going to buy our first (and hopefully last!) home!  It’s very scary, but fun.   I’ve managed to write my daily pages every day this month (I’m going to do that …

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