mid-week preview…

Ok, not really mid-week, since weigh-in day is Thursday, but I’ve been doing pretty well with the eating on points this week and I wish to make a note of the result in hopes that it will help prevent me from making cookies for the remainder of the week. Also, the Thursday weigh-in is often a little more than a mid-week one, so clinging to the positive here. I am, ATM, down 2.5 pounds from where I was last Thursday. That’s a fair amount, although not a worrisome amount: this…

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bullet-point life

thinks to do: – check out the new gym on saturday – sign up for spanish & photography classes – call the photo club guy – CALL FREAKING FNBA IN ALASKA TONIGHT! – finish editing HoC – buy a new keyboard – stay the course on eating right – walk the dog – watch the !netflix films that’ve been sitting around for weeks – conquer publishing world

huh.

Ok. Got through the book once. I actually feel like I’ve got a story here. That’s nice. Don’t think I’ll work on it more today, ’cause Ted has the evening off (at least in theory) and maybe we can watch some TV on DVD together before he collapses, poor guy. Anyway, the work, she is cut out for me, but it doesn’t look too arduous (except for the part where using my brain the way it’s necessary to for these books is difficult), so I should be more or less…

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editing

Ok, there’ve been two scenes so far that I’d more or less forgotten about that when I read them I thought, hey, that’s pretty good, and I just now turned a page and read a scene end and went “OOH! THAT WAS A GOOD ONE! OOH! I didn’t see *that* coming! OOH!” It’s a little silly to not see it coming when you *wrote* it, but there you are. was pleased by my OOH!ing, saying: says “Making pleased noises during a revision pass before she gets to the very very…

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On procrastinating, or maybe on editing

So far today I’ve cleaned the kitchen fairly thoroughly, made bread, folded laundry in order to recover the kitchen table so I could work there, cleared off the coffee table so I could work there, and printed out eleven hundred pages worth of manuscripts. Really. Because obviously, you can’t edit if the living room hasn’t been rescued from itself, or if the kitchen table is sagging under the weight of clean laundry, or if there’s no fresh bread with homemade apricot jam to eat. You certainly can’t edit the one…

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