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This weekend was a nice, sort of lazy weekend. Got some housework done yesterday, dicked around a little on my manuscript last night, and this afternoon, since Tara already was away with her mother, I was going to meet my own mother (LVP) for dinner in Wilkes-Barre, and decided to leave a lot earlier and go to Guitar Center at Montage and look at ( Read more... ) -
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Tara worked overtime all week, so today was the first time I got to see her in a while. I'm actually trying to recall what day I saw her last before today. We're in almost constant contact thanks to our BlackBerrys, but it's not the same as being with her in person. Anyway, she came with LVP and I to Wilkes-Barre and then for some quick grocery ( Read more... ) -
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Tired as hell today. Got some writing in tonight after dealing with some "writer's constipation" yesterday, finally passing the 169,000-word mark. Going to try for 175,000 by Monday. Racking right now though. -
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Look up your birthday in Wikipedia. Pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday ( Read more... ) -
Happy Birthday to Me...
I turned 42 on Friday. It was an interesting day. Original plan was Tara and I going to Cooper's, but her sister and brother-in-law had gotten four free tickets to a Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees (minor league farm team for New York) game, complete with access to one of the party rooms, so we went for it. The game was a bit of an anti-climax ( Read more... ) -
Vacation (writing hiatus), Day 8
2,661 new words, making for an updated word count of 156,801 as of a minute ago. I had a late start on the writing and my eyes are starting to droop. I shall try for 7,500-10,000 words in these last two days of the "writing hiatus" and figure out my gameplan to reach 200,000 by my 42nd birthday on Friday. -
Vacation (writing hiatus), Day 7
The manuscript is now up to 154,140 words as of Thursday. I cannot help but feel proud. Tempted to do a little more but am undecided as to where to continue. I went over some of the freewritten scenes that I have left and I cannot decide right now which one to start cleaning up. Perhaps I will start another need-to-write scene entirely before ( Read more... ) -
Vacation (writing hiatus), Day 3
Not much on the writing front, but I kinda planned for that. I did add a little to one scene directly in the manuscript itself earlier today, but the focus of today was actually spending Independence Day with Tara. LIke last year, we brought along our bag chairs and a couple of books. Tara only brought along Atlas Shrugged, while I, unable to ( Read more... ) -
Vacation (writing hiatus), Day 2
Writing hiatus (vacation) officialy began yesterday,even though I started on it after I came home from work on Wednesday. The scene I started on Wednesday night, I finished yesterday (after getting a fuckload of housework out of the way), then I started on another one. This morning, I started, after morning e-mail, to rewrite one of the earlier ( Read more... ) -
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As hoped, I spent a good deal of the day on the novel, cleaning up some of the freewritten scenes, writing another scene, and putting all of those into the manuscript. And the new word count is...
133,975!
No patting myself on the back or anything, but that's pretty fucking good for a day's work considering that I was somewhere in the 122,000's ( Read more... )