Over 600 more words cut tonight. Yay me! Yay machete! Let’s see, what else. Umm…nope. Not coming up with anything. Bly thinks I should watch more TV. Apparently there are some great new shows on tonight. I figure I get little enough done as it is. I’ve got a new second cousin. I haven’t seen […]
Today was Bly’s birthday. As part of her present, I promised not to bite my friend Thomas no matter how obnoxious he was. And I didn’t. Not when he declared outside the restaurant Bly wanted that “this place isn’t worth a forty-five minute wait.” Not when he told Hope to “just go” to the restroom
I made it. I survived the first day of school. I’m still surfing the tsunami. Yeah, the piles are getting higher, but I still know where everything (mostly) is, and I’m not letting anything pile up horribly to be dealt with later (yet.) I’m trying really hard to stay on top of things, and so
So 170 pages into editing (we only got as far as page 199 during the drive) I decide Bly isn’t necessarily right about the commas. In fact, I really hope she isn’t, because the way she wants me to use commas will drive me insane. Ah. Must be time for research. Yay! So I went
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Lately I’ve been talking a lot about my friends and fellow writers. But today I’ve realized something. They don’t place nearly the priority I do on writing. I ask what they’re doing this weekend, and writing is last on the list, not first. It’s the “get to it if I can” thing. And we all