Feels pretty gratifying to write that at the end of a novel, clocking in at just under 99,000 words. Of course, it's not really the end, but the beginning of the re-write. Still, it's something to celebrate!


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...you should make a soundtrack for it, and then play that while you write. That's what works for me anyway. Ending isn't completely finished, but the major conflict is. Quite an accomplishment.


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"...and amazement for yourself." Thank you, Jack Kerouac. And I have been amazed.


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Head out on the highway.


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Easy like Sunday mornin'.


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Because I'm a machine.


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About done typing, I'm sure you understand.


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...if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure." Ernest Hemingway said that. Or at least a guy portraying him in a Woody Allen movie I saw this afternoon said that. Still, it's a good line ( Read more... )

Or perhaps a reincarnation. That's how I'd like to think of the return to my live journal ( Read more... )