daily grind

I got started an hour late today, so by 3pm I only had 4100 words. Then, most awfully, I noticed it was only another 1100 words to 20K on the book, so obviously the day’s goal was not 5K, but 5200 words. And at 3pm I *reaaaaaaalllllly* didn’t feel like writing anymore. So I came downstairs to log on and whine, and found that Ted had sent me a copy of the Rogue poster for X3. (I am despondent. My hair is nowhere near long enough for X3 Rogue. It…

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fad diets

Last week, linked to something called the Shangri-La diet, which is not precisely a diet, but more accurately a trick for making your body think it’s fuller than it is so it burns fat. The way you do this is by consuming “tasteless” calories outside of a period of time in which you normally eat. (So if you have lunch from 12-12:30, you might have your “tasteless” calories at 2, and then a snack at 3:30 or wait for dinner or whatever.) The guy who made it up determined you…

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the power of me

I started HOUSE OF CARDS today. Honestly, I really did not think I would get anywhere near quota. I figured I might hit 3K and I’d be satisfied with that. That would finish the chapter I had a couple hundred words on, and I thought that would be a nice get-back-in-the-saddle start. Except I wrote like 3400 words and then, well, hell, it was only another 1600 to quota. So I ended up with 5100 words today and I am very very smug about it. Best of all, I had…

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