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Current word count: 19560 (39.12 %)

Yeah, that’s right. Uh huh. :::shake, shuffle, gri-i-i-i-nd, grin:::

In case you missed it the first time: Current word count: 19560 (39.12 %) with 22 days left, with current pace, expected to finish in 16 days. The gods have spoken.

Truth is, I’ve written twice that much. Except I’ve had […]

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Slit My Wrists, It’s Almost November Again

Damn.  I really need to stop taking my semi-annual R-n-R trip in October; especially when I’ve decided I won’t be participating in the annual National Novel Writing Month, known as NaNoWriMo.

Yep, I went away and during my few days of time to myself, wound up writing feverishly on a variety of subjects including a SciFi […]

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Final Results

If everything was so simple. If.

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004

Writing, Responsibilities, Writing, Life

Finding a priority is next to impossible. We’re moving, have a house to put up on the market, have kids in elementary school with homework every night (and upcoming parent-teacher conferences looming in the near future) … are you getting the sense of apprehension? No?

I am a community leader volunteer for […]

Thursday, November 4th, 2004

2004 NaNoWriMo Begins: Thoughts

Last year I entered, at the encouragement of a colleague and friend, the annual National Novel Writing Month challenge. If you’re not familiar with it, take a gander by going to http://www.nanowrimo.org. To sum it up real quickly, entrants are to write 50,000 words in 30 days beginning at a minute after midnight […]

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004