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Novel Update

35,387 / 50,000(70.0%) 2,284 words. For those of you keeping score at home, I wrote for an hour and forty-five minutes today. First: Mom bit her lip, but didn’t respond. Last: Brownie Thistlekin stepped forward, twisting his broom in his hands.

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Novel revisions

I spent some time revising one of my novels. It felt really good. I haven’t touched it in a year and I was happy that the story held my attention still. What makes me even happier is that I’m a better writer now. That’s nice. I had a chapter, which I’ve known for a while

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Physical Therapy and Max

I took Max, the light rail, to my physical therapy appointment today. I wrote about 500 words of my NaNovel on the train. It was very easy and once again makes me wonder why I used to own a car. Of course, that’s because it wasn’t raining and all of my connections worked well. Those

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Progress report

I only wrote 1746 words today, but I made several good discoveries. At one point when Grace’s daughter, Cassandra, is grousing about something she thinks “a bear like her father,” and I suddenly realized that Grace met her husband while he was an enchanted bear. I don’t know if it will continue to make sense

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Editing

While Rob went off to play tennis, I spent a happy day editing short stories and my novel. I have to write a summary for it and a query letter, but I think I’ll be able to start sending it out in a couple of months.

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Steve arrives tonight

My brother, Steve, gets in at 10:40 tonight. I’m starting to wonder if I’ll be able to pick him up at the airport. I should have told him to bring a good book, because we’ll be hanging out at the studio a lot tomorrow. Still haven’t worked yet today. I have, however, written another chapter

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Tea-time?

Interesting. We were called in around 4:00, but still haven’t done anything. We have half an hour left till the end of the day, so I can only assume that they brought us in for tea-time. I used the time to start work on a new novel today, and am three chapters into it. It’s

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