shuttle disaster, mark 2

oh, god. no. not again. just a couple of days ago i was watching a ‘remember the challenger’ special blort on cnn. and remembering like i always do, the shock and disbelief i felt. And remembering the drawing that an ElfQuest fan did in rememberence, a picture of Skywise standing in front of a television with an expression of incredible sorrow on his face, head lowered and fingertips on the top of the tv, and below it written the date. To me, because I’m a great ElfQuest fan, that image…

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this is not writing?

Hm. I spent several hours this afternoon doing edits/rewrites on the first 3 Josie chapters — well, the first 2.3 Josie chapters, and then my brain shut down — but going with my 50% wordcount for editing, I accomplished about 3450 words written today. This is not writing? ytd wordcount: 35,000 (holy moly)

oop

Or, oop, maybe Dad will forget to pick me up, and instead of swimming I’ll get the next chapter of MD edited. Which is a good thing, since I haven’t gotten much writing done today overall, only 750 words or so. I used up a lot of brain yesterday, I guess. :) Speaking of yesterday! Mom came over yesterday with a new quilt that she’d made for us! It’s very cool! It’s in greens and pale yellows and purples and is in a pattern called an Irish… Cross? Ring? I…

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