The reasons for this blog: 1. To provide basic author information for students, teachers, librarians, etc. (Please see sidebar) 2. I think out loud a lot as I work through writing projects, and I'm trying to dump most of those thoughts here rather than on my friends.
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2012
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February
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- Got stuck in road-construction-traffic-jam h*ll to...
- Last night, ending up fleshing out some of the sce...
- Have been working a little bit most nights before ...
- *SPOILER*--reading this will ruin my dystopian nov...
- Am attempting to work on my ms at night, after put...
- While driving today, I was thinking about the part...
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January
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- Took about 30 minutes to work on my own stuff--wen...
- Instead of writing a new "thingee" for the main se...
- Still developing and fleshing out the pieces that ...
- Yesterday, pulled up chapter 11 and piddled around...
- At some point before I left for VT, I split chapte...
- Yesterday, worked on the first scene of chapter 11...
- Back to dystopian. Days ago I decided to clarify t...
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February
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2011
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December
(7)
- Yesterday, started gathering snippets from old ver...
- Despite the lightened workload of between-semester...
- Tightened up Chapter 11 a little. Seems like it's ...
- Finished up some end-of-semester paperwork today, ...
- Was talking with writer friends about "endowed obj...
- Wrote 170 words to start a fight scene that will t...
- Had 15 minutes of free time in the carpool line, s...
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October
(7)
- Yeah, I think I'm getting through this tricky part...
- I went back over the lengthy transition, this time...
- The transition into the middle section has been to...
- No time to work on my own stuff. However, it seems...
- Taking a little time from other people's work so I...
- I was thinking about the part of the ms that's bot...
- I have been making my way through corrections, but...
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September
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- Typed in about 70 pages worth of fixes. The going ...
- Okay, hmm. I think the first 107 pages are workabl...
- I printed out the first 107 pages to read over tom...
- Going through the scenes and grounding them deeply...
- Busy here, but I have been working on the dystopia...
- Still busy. Have been working here and there on he...
- Yesterday, filled in a transition between two scen...
- Very busy. Have been thinking about the dystopian,...
- Woke up briefly at 4:40 a.m. with a bunch of sudde...
- Busy with school starting and family stuff going o...
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August
(29)
- It occurs to me that this is a really stupid story...
- Yesterday I wrote a new piece of dialog where a se...
- Gobi the Gerbil 2007-2011 Requiescat In Pace ...
- The he's-already-dead-scene has definitely become ...
- Had about 20 minutes to write; started changing a ...
- Forgot to say, the character who had the broken le...
- Major, major sketching-out, here. Shifted the s...
- Note to self: think about book X
- Note to self re: Beast or God again
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December
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