Yesterday I flew from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Charlotte, North Carolina to Knoxville, Tennessee. My daughter just moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee in late July. Her husband can't move until early November so she really needed a visit from family. She found me some good fares. REALLY good fares. As we were on the phone I mused
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Long time no post.

Writing, writing, writing.

Hit slump. Bam, bam, bam.

Shopping, shopping, shopping.

Behold Incentive:

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Jumping on the bandwagon late! I'm from Racine, Wisconsin. This is about six blocks from where I lived most of my life until a year ago:

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750 words today on the WIP. And most of them were keepers.

Yay me!  ::Dancing the Happy Little Teapot Dance because....:::

Okay. Got me there. But I'm rocking the writing on a friggin-A Monday.

I'm zenning in the realm of unconscious competence, at least until I read it tomorrow morning.

Nite, Flist - I lurve you all, my tiny literary buds!

I should be in Las Vegas right now. I made it through a tornado/thunderstorm in Southeast Wisconsin Friday with no problems. Even though it hit a mile away.
Here's a picture from my back door post-tornado. If you look close, you can see one of the smaller funnel clouds.

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I'm from Racine, Wisconsin. Home of the World's Best Prom. Honest, people!

I KNOW fabulous writers of the Mighty Flist are writing books about Prom. You need to come to ours, it's next Saturday.

Started in 1953 after a prom night alcohol related fatal car crash, the Rotarians of Racine created a safe post prom experience for Racine students.

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A River Runs Through It....my brain, that is.

Working on scenes lately for Attack of the Altar Girls. Rather than revise with the finished scene on the screen, I've been using the technique from the Darcy Pattison workshop. 1. Look over scene. 2. Re-write the scene in a new file. WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE ORIGINAL SCENE. It's working out so that my ( Read more... )

The latest round of revisions, post Darcy Pattison revision workshop, allows me to have special time with my pretty new highlighters.

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I wrote a 15+K first draft in 22 days at my Mothership <> between February 14 and March 6. March 7th I was back at Starbucks, now the ONLY place I can write because my muse hates me.

Some teenagers sitting behind me <> gave me an idea for ANOTHER book.  Which I have also started to write. Yes, tag team tales. When I go stale on one, I can work on ( Read more... )

I'm at a Benedictine Monastary at a Darcy Pattison novel revision retreat. Last night we did the first sessions. We had to do something called a plot / narrative arc inventory. Afterwards Darcy queried the group with, "So, what did you find?" Answers included issues with characters, setting, and dialogue.

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