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Dear California,

Would you like a reason why your debt is so monumentally huge? I'll tell you one. You waste money, time, and jobs repaving a street that was already repaved VERY recently, that DEFINITELY didn't need it, and that is now a major inconvenience AND, as I mentioned, a waste of so many things.

Lame.

Sincererly,
Stephanie

I went to Wordle.net, pasted the entirety of my novel thus far, and this is one of many it came up with. The bigger words are, the more prominent they are in my story, of course. I thought this was appropriate, so here: my novel (so far) in a (colorful) nutshell:


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JUST when I start thinking that maybe I'm behind enough to drop this, that I'm crazy to try and attempt this feat this year, that I'm too tired to hash out even a few measly words, I get this text from Matt:

And now what are you doing? Writing?And that simple assumption from someone who knows me so well is enough to make me keep going, at least a ( Read more... )

Do you want to know my honest thoughts on the (presidential) outcome of yesterday's election?

If everyone can stand behind him, and I mean really unify in a way that our desperately country needs, then hey, more power to Obama. All I know is I'd be praying for whoever won to make the right choices. Wouldn't you?

Dear Daylight Savings Time,

Apparently the extra hour WASN'T for sleep. Stupid alarm clock...

Sincerely,
Stephanie

Dear Daylight Savings Time,

Thank you so much for falling in early November this year. I was going to be forced to choose between an extra hour of sleep and an extra hour of noveling, and now I don't have to choose. Never again will I forget you're coming or going. I love you.

Sincerely,
Sleepy Stephanie

I hadn't even completely decided IF I was going to write this month, let alone WHAT I would write if I decided to embark on this voluntary stretch of insanity...

...and then, Psychology happened. The class, not necessarily the concept. I was sitting there this morning, taking notes on defense mechanisms when BAM: displacement. For weeks, I've ( Read more... )

How lucky could I possibly get? Some of my favorite people (Matt, Steph, Kevin) go to UCLA, which is a convenient 11 minutes from Santa Monica Junior High, the only Southern California location on Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book Tour. Yes, Neil Gaiman!! Author of Stardust (yes, as in the movie) and so many more books, poems, short stories, and ( Read more... )

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