Well, I made it up to 8189 words today.  This is less than I had hoped for, but was still over 1000 words for the day.  I would have thought having the day off of work would have been me more productive, but then there are always dishes to wash and errands to run and cute kitties to play with ( Read more... )

Day five already.  Okay, so I have fallen a little behind.   Like a day behind schedule.  This is nothing I can't make up this weekend.  I plan on writing like crazy during my days off of work ( Read more... )

I have made my goal for the second day in a row.  3372 words now. That makes 9 pages of writing, and it is great fun.  The characters are already starting to surprise me.  They are "coming to life" and seeming more real.  I can see possibilities for what they might do later on in the book, and it is just up to me to discover if that is what they ( Read more... )

I am making another attempt at writing a National Novel Writing Month novel.  Day One can be considered a success.  I got to 1824 at 10pm.  I actually put writing ahead of tv and internet (shocking).  I am hoping if I continue to exceed the average word goal (1667 words a day) I can get far enough ahead that I can coast on through later in the ( Read more... )

It is always a difficult transition when one goes from being part of a couple to being single.  But I have to say that I am so blessed.  I have a whole big group of family and friends who unquestioningly take my side even when there isn't really a side to be taken.  I am lucky.  I have people who care for me so much, that they are there for me ( Read more... )

It was totally the right decision to get my kitten.  Right now, Miss Kitty and Kitty Boy are together on the couch.  Every once in awhile, Miss Kitty wakes up and gives Kitty Boy a few licks before settling back to sleep.  They are totally the cutest couple of cats ever!


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I opened my writing notebook today.  I looked at the latest story.  It was stalled out.  Stuck in the mud.  Completely dead.  I had made it seven handwritten pages.  This took me a month--or maybe a bit more than a month.  Write a paragraph one day, a page another day.  Most days writing nothing ( Read more... )

I had a great several days with my niece.  She is visiting the state from Arizona, and staying with my parents.  She came on a Wednesday after I got off of work and we all had a nice dinner together before my parents went home.  Thursday I took Sierra for a girl's day out.  We got our haircut, then went to the mall and bought her school clothes.   ( Read more... )