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And the weekend is over.
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So the new and improved bird story is off to the online crit group. It was write, scratch out, rinse and repeat this weekend until I hit the moment where I could only change words here or there. Boom. Fly little story.
Tomorrow, I will have to find another story in need of a rewrite. That’s not hard, actually. That’s ( Read more... ) -
*thud*
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Why is it that four-day weeks are so much more exhausting than the regular five-day ones?
Could it be something to do with the actual holiday?
I do not know. But I am grateful that I have another three-day weekend this weekend to recover from last week. How I’ll recover the following weekend when it’s all normal again ( Read more... ) -
Less than 24 hours
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and the youngest was home again to pick up a few more things and do a load of laundry.
Just sayin’.
(Plus, she commented on the fact that I had taken up her spot in the driveway when I parked the car last night. I told her that I hadn’t planned on her being home again until tomorrow, after work. Maybe she’ll learn to ( Read more... ) -
It’s official
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We are now empty nesters.
Exhausted empty nesters, since it took most of the day to load the cars and truck, and then unload them. I spent a couple of hours hand-washing dishes and pots (new and packed away for a while) and then putting them in cupboards.
They turned down a dinner out tonight, and we’ll catch them later ( Read more... ) -
Up and already
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writing is in process. Eleven new sentences. Go me.
Last night, I got just two, and some rewriting. But there was critting and commenting on others’ work that took me time, and I was overwhelmed with comments on my own short. I needed a night to sleep on the thoughts swirling in my head, and apparently that worked.
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If you wait long enough…
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More rewriting tonight. I’ve had a few more crits pointing out things I really must fix, so I am.
I’m tempted to give completely up on the tightening. One critter caught the variance in language by the end, and I’m not sure I want to lose that voice.
Oh, well, there will be time for another go around. But I’ve got to ( Read more... ) -
Write your fingers to the bone
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So between putting my short up on the OWW, which I haven’t done in forever, and getting a couple of crits there, and receiving John Truby’s book The Anatomy of Story in the mail today, I had to rewrite.
Charlie(!) walked me through a mini lesson on imagery there, specifically with my ending, but I’m applying it ( Read more... ) -
Another pass
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through my bird story last night, trying to condense it.
I managed to shrink it nearly a page. But it’s still novella length, and I’d love to get this down to short story word count. I have three hundred words to go.
It’s very difficult because I have a voice that invokes a certain era, and I can’t chop it too much ( Read more... ) -
Absolutely glorious harmonies
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and what a blend. Amazing.
Tonight’s work-no actual sentences, but progress was made on character motivations in another story. It’s opened another can of research-on self-winding clock mechanisms.
My brain, and welcome to it.
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Onward
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One freaking word.
And that took twenty minutes of research and much debate over whether to use the verb I wanted, because of when it came into use (1825, in relation to boxing) and would it have made it to household usage in the 1880′s. I swear. Writers.
(Meaning me. YMMV.)
And then it was off to choir for two hours, ( Read more... )
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