An Update before I sleep…

I’m genuinely exhausted, but I’m stretching the day just a little further to get a blog post out. Isn’t that responsible of me? Someday, I’m going to do an hour-by-hour comparison of what my current schedule looks like next to a normal, 9-5 schedule, and realize that I’m staying up til my midnight every day.

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My word processor decided to update, today. Shut down, update… clear out any memory of anything I’d been working on… and clear the list of recent documents, just for good measure. It’s possible I’ve been relying on the restore feature just a little too much. The weird thing is… I’m sure that I lost some

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I’ve been hammering away at the first ten pages of an old project, trying to get it ready to send it out to be critiqued. I am shocked at how much difference the widows and orphans control makes in the over all length of the thing. Okay, so there’s that. I wound up with about

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Unproposing Marriage, and other Emily Post Moments

I was thinking about an old friend, today. No reason. Except… uhm… maybe the latest blockbuster murder brought it up. Specifically, the question was… how long would it take my grade school era best friend to kill me, if we had gotten married? Okay. So, he’d probably (almost certainly) pick a healthier alternative to murder.

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The Halloween Month… and a Half

It is possible that my neighbors’ house is a little haunted. The decorating is probably… hmmm… about half done? Seems like they always have another cadaver lying around somewhere.

Hunting the Evasive Theme

I’ve been flying through stage one of my revision, and now… I’m down to about forty pages left. That’s forty pages of the ones that have been typed. I might try to track down a few more in the handwritten cesspool that is my notebook, but really… I have enough to give the book some

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So, I Went Out…

It was one of those days, where you have to focus on the journey, instead of the destination. If you can do that, it’s a nice little walk. If not… well, eventually, you wind up at the Burlington Northern Railroad track. It’s a nice track. An active track. Somewhere beyond that (and the very nice,

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Organizational Skills: A Brief History

I was browsing bargain books, today. I know. Not exactly an earth-shattering revelation. Dread Nation is on sale for $1.99, and I didn’t find an audiobook replacement for the book I really ought to push my way through. (Pretty sure I was promised vampires. Where are the vampires? Are they… behind Woodrow Wilson?) I bumped

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