there.

There. 5000 or so words today, more or less despite myself. Ted helped me figure out who the other POV character should be, and I’ve written several scenes with her now, and I’m probably going to have to print the book out and look at actual pages in order to figure out what works and what I need to cut from the original text. I also need to write at least one more scene from a 3rd POV character, and I think I know where it goes. I just gotta…

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revelation [ww lock]

I had a revelation last night. This is something basically pointed out weeks ago, but I’m a little slow on the uptake. My revelation: I have *never* successfully stayed on the Weight Watchers plan at 22 points a day. I may have managed it for a few weeks last summer while I was exercising like a fiend and bringing my points up to something like 27 or 28 base through APs, and then an additional several with the WPA, but I have .never. actually stuck with it for more than…

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gawd

I’m turning sleeping hard into an art form. Next up on X-TREME SPORTS: Who can SLEEP THROUGH ANYTHING? I thought I got up and showered 3 separate times this morning (not including the time I *did*). You’d think the fact that one time I woke up in Cork, another time in Anchorage, and the third in New York City, might’ve clued me in to something being not quite right, but no, not so much. OTOH, I woke up knowing how I was going to rewrite at least part of COYOTE…

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