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Another Wash

Still traveling.  Wrote about 350 words of chapter beats, which I guess counts for something…but doesn’t feel like it.  By Monday, I’ll be back into a routine, and maybe before.

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Traveling

So zip words.  I tried on the plane, but I was just so pooped, I zonked out. So no words.  Probably no words tomorrow.  Maybe story beats on the way home. Bothers me.

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Pacing

THE DAY No, not the narrative kind.  The feets kind. After the very good day of writing yesterday, the pace kind of took a breather.  Since restarting this book about two weeks ago (Day 42), I’ve had a good idea…

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Work Comes First

THE DAY So I’m working away this morning, trying to finish up this one section before I have to take off and go to the pool and then get my hair done, when I realize that I’m not going to finish when…

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Spiraling

THE DAY It’s late; I’m weary; so I will be brief. I met a very interesting guy tonight who asked about what I do and how I write, and then said that what I described sounded like spiraling: where you…

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Score Cards

THE DAY Listening to the Democratic Town Hall meeting right now, and I’m of two minds.  On the one hand, I appreciate hearing some civilized rhetoric instead of the scream-fests that characterize the meanness that is Republican rhetoric.  But I…

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Putzy

THE DAY Not much to say about the day.  Woke up feeling pretty putzy, as I’ve actually been feeling all week.  The husband and I finally decided that I’d been poisoned by soup from Whole Foods earlier in the week,…

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Late Start

THE DAY So how was the day? Hmmm…okay?  It began later than usual for me.  Had a bad night sleeping; kept waking up every other hour or so, thinking about the book.  Around about 2 a.m., I was tempted to…

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Control

THE DAY It was one of those days where you have very little control over how your time is spent.  I knew it was coming, but that doesn’t make it any easier to bear or me any less pissed. I…

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Screwing Your Butt to the Chair

THE DAY I actually did that pretty much all day to make up for yesterday.  Boy, you know when you’ve been putting in the hours and work because not only is your watch nagging at you to get up and move,…

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