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It is 8:09 pm. Time spent writing today: hours. Possibly too many to justify the low wordage. Word count: 3,307 (yes, that’s 2,000 words in one day, thank you very much. And still writing.) Scenes left to write before Week Three story’s in the bag: 2 Time left to write today: hours. No critting on…… Continue reading Progress report

Week 3 story is at about 1,350 words — which, considering the overall Sahara-ness of my brain yesterday, is not too shabby. The story is taking on a life of its own, which is just the way I likes it — if the tone doesn’t click somewhere around the 1,000 word mark, then I start…… Continue reading Word count creeping skyward

My magic dress is having a positive effect on my writing today (although, admittedly, this is a *new* new magic dress, so it might just be that my brain has decided to play nice) and my story is now 40 words shy of 1,000. We’re heading to Avid Reader early this evening to attend Sean’s…… Continue reading Flirting with 1,000

You know you’re tired when you go to put handsoap on your toothbrush. 1.5 stories left to crit…

Today’s writing was hard. My tired brain couldn’t even piggyback Angela’s mojo, even though she was writing up a storm next door. I kept writing, then deleting; writing then deleting; thereby ignoring one of my most fundamental ‘rules’ of writing. Namely, write something. Edit later, because you can’t edit nothing.I seem to have forgotten that…… Continue reading On ignoring your own rules

Unless finishing critting before midnight is an early night at Clarion. (I suspect it is.) Too tired to work on Week 3 story right now… I’ve got the first line down. The rest will come. But not tonight.Haiku for tomorrow–a riff off of Steph’s story:Reluctant pirateTorn by moral dilemmasNo killing for her. 

My body hasn’t quite decided if it’s caught a cold or if it’s suffering from allergies. Either way, I’ve been doing my best to alleviate the symptoms of this mysterious condition by eating lots of chocolate and Nanaimo bars (the last of these c/o Ron. Lucky me – you just can’t get Nanaimo bars like…… Continue reading Weird upon weird upon weird

Drunk uni students outside must be shot. Especially when it is after midnight and I’m still not done critting tomorrow’s stories. Especially when I’ve got allergies and my eyes are all itchy. Especially when I’m tired. Have I mentioned I’m not done critting yet? People will be able to say whatever they want about my…… Continue reading Still critting…

Lindt chocolate with caramel. Dark chocolate with mixed berries. Lindt chili chocolate. Need I say more?

Three haiku (is the plural ‘haikus’? That just sounds wrong…) for today. A rested brain is a productive brain. Actually, I realised that my brain is like the Dalek that appears in Dr Who (Rob Shearman’s Dalek: the one with heart): if you torture it, it will be stubbornly silent. But if you treat it…… Continue reading Untitled