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Complexity revisions aren't going to be finished by the end of May, but at least I'm several chapters ahead of anybody likely to be reading. The last 7 chapters or so need the most work, so I don't want to rush. Skyping and Scrying is a mess.
Other than that, this weekend I'll get in some reviewing and put together another poetry submission or two. And one publication has asked for some very specific revisions to Tale of Our Ancestors, which I should be able to make without too much trouble. |
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1. Finish reading & annotating Complexity reviews
2. Start working through the chapters
3. Get next assignment for class written & turned in
4. Start organizing poetry submissions
4 1/2. Oh yeah, and clean the floor in the family room |
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| April is poetry month, and I'm up to my neck in Katya the Poet's poem a day challenge. I also just got back from a trip, so I've fallen behind on my reviewing. That will be my second priority this week, especially catching up with the First Three Chapters discussions. Third priority, if I manage to get to it, will be submitting the next lesson for my short story class. |
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| I'll be working on short stories for the rest of the month--revising and submitting existing ones, and writing new ones for my class. |
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| This week I'm going to work on short stories. I've got quite a few that are ready for editing, plus another lesson to get to work on for my short story class. I'll probably get to a review or two later in the week. |
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| I feel like editing. Is that weird or what? I'll work that over the weekend, then toss in another lesson for class and some more imagining for the new novel on Monday and Tuesday. |
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Ashley and I are both in the middle of writing new articles, mine on wands and hers on crystal grids. I'm more the everywoman's perspective, while she's a real expert in her field.
I'm just glad the newsletter came through. We just signed on to a new mail service, and I had no idea what I was doing when I hit "send"!
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Hi Cathy,
I really enjoyed your Mimosa article on incense. I had no idea there were so many different kinds or that some could be as simple as pine resin. I like all your articles and look forward to the next  Connie |
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| Taxes, reviewing, submissions. In that order. On Wednesday, I'll start messing around with the novels again. |
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I'm in the middle of about ten things right now, with not much time to work on any of them today or tomorrow. But I don't have much to do Monday and Tuesday. In order of importance:
1. Finish & submit Gambit
2. Finish & submit two poems for Everyday Poetry
3. Finish & submit assignment 1 for my class
4. Revise 2-4 chapters of Complexity
5. Finish draft of Ch 1 of Xenology, and start Ch 2 if possible
6. 1-2 reviews for Wyrm
7. Active Writers' Group newsletter
8. Finish article on wands |
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This is my month of doctors. Spent a bunch of yesterday first at the dentist, then dragging a granny cart loaded with groceries through the slush, then having a vet take care of the kitties.
Nothing like that today. Instead, some creative stuff: get a new book started, draft the assignment for my class, and maybe play with some poetry. I'll continue these projects this week, revise a couple more chapters, and toss out a couple submissions. After tomorrow's optometrist appointment, that is. |
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| That would definitely solve the snow problem, but it is very chilly here this morning...brrrr. |
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| WD 40 on those snowshoe straps. It fixes everything. |
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| Urg, the internet is so slow today, I'm drafting a poem while I wait for the pages to load! I saw them repairing phone lines down the street, so maybe that's why. |
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Novels: revising Complexity, at a pace of about a chapter every two days
Poems: drafting this week
Stories: I haven't quite figured out literary fiction. Most of what I read of it is like an extended journal entry. Maybe I'll take a real journal entry and write a story around it? Anyway, this week I'll make some attempt at a literary fiction story. It doesn't have to be long. |
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Tomorrow and the next day, I'm doing some creative time in the morning, and then cleaning house and engaging in required partying in the p.m.
Then, until the end of February, working through my reading notes on Complexity. (Reviews, too, of course, but my own notes are angrier.)
This isn't a difficult schedule--two chapters a day at most. Plenty of time for other work. |
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I need to finish up my read-through of Complexity. I'm about 15 chapters in, and I'd like to be done by the end of Tuesday, so that's ten chapters a day--reading and annotating.
That's about all I'm going to get done. The rest of both days will have to be devoted to Christmas stuff. |
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| Mornings I'll be drafting new poems. Or put otherwise, staring into space and occasionally scribbling something indecipherable onto a sheet of binder paper. I'll also get cracking on my read-through of Complexity. I'll be to busy to work afternoons, unfortunately, though I may get a review in. |
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| This week I'm non-fictional. I want to get as many articles written as I can, focusing on the research stage. I'd rather get a whole bunch started that just finish one or two. I'm also going for a few reviews, and some work on my group's pages. |
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What's this about birthday presents?
 Happy Birthday! 
(Or not if you meant something else. lol) |
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Well, I only got to about half of last week's things because I got called into work on Tuesday. This Thursday's a holiday, so I have to cram the prep for the store newsletter into whatever extra hours, to get out by Wednesday IN ADDITION to my store hours that day. Then comes Black Friday...
Anyway, I haven't had a day off since last Monday. I've got a story and two poems ready to type, but only if I feel like it. I've also got correspondence to answer and birthday presents to play with. |
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No big projects this weekend, but lots of little ones:
- try to submit something that's already been through editing
- separate poems I want to work on from those I don't
- draw a couple birthday cards
- rake
- start working on more articles
- one review for Active Writers' Group |
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| Just one project this weekend: fixing up Urban Silence, as an entry to the Glass Woman Prize's ghost story contest. This story has never really gotten beyond draft stage. The ending is both too confusing and too woo-woo, and the writing is shallow and amateurish. |
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| This will not be a big writing weekend, though I plan to get 2-4 reviews in. Mostly I'll be recovering from the last two months of novelizing. There's laundry and dishes, I've got to mail in my food stamp renewal, and the kitty litter needs changing bad! |
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| Two more chapters to go. Tomorrow's is going to be hard to draft, but Wednesday's is just going to be fun. I'd do them both tomorrow, but it's Kid B's birthday. Then Thursday, I'm taking the day off from work and partying. Woo-hoo! After that, looking forward to reacquainting myself with reviewing and poetry. |
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| A chapter a day for the rest of the month, and I'll have the novel all drafted. I can't get anything much done on Sundays, but I can make that day up on Monday or Tuesday. |
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Today, work through reviews of the first 6 chapters. I've already read and annotated. After lunch I'll fix those chapters and skim through the next 14.
Tomorrow, one new chapter and some background work.
Thereafter, a chapter a day. From here on, most will need to be drafted from scratch. That rate is an average; I'll make up for Saturdays and Sundays when I'm too busy to write on Mondays and Tuesdays. |
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Made it through working all weekend, yay! They might call me to come in Tuesday, but I hope not, because I want to plow through four chapters in the next two days. All are revisions, so it should be doable, but I've got to hit the bank, library, 3 grocery stores & a farmer's market too.
I'm going for a wander by the Indian mounds in the Arboretum once it warms up this morning. It's a site that wasn't in the book before but has become the location of a bunch of the activity. Heh, research! |
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| Made it through the planned 13 book chapters, though it turned into 14 by the time I was done. Now I'm going to draft through the current chapter 20, which will be about 22 by the time I get there. In a week, maybe? After that, a short break before moving on. |
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Priorities, through Tuesday:
1. Complexity chapters. I'm almost done with 7, and want to make it at least through 13. Keep going with character sketches, too.
2. Start three articles, finish one: Buddhas, singing bowls, chakra balancing
3. Take a half hour or more to wallow in poetry every day.
4. One WYRM review, at least two Active Writer reviews, plus a re-review of Joy in Repetition (which I don't think is up anywhere at this point) |
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| Through Sunday, just get through ch 6. 5 has some issues: 1. the way the trees move isn't right, 2. the "portal" thing isn't quite right either. Plus add a few sentences based on Arwee's three insights as marked on HC, and fix technical issues. Ch 6 needs to be converted to first person, with an addition of the other three (or maybe 2, still thinking on Kryl) homeless "old ones" along with Alma. |
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Hrmm, now where were we. . . Priorities through Tuesday (and I won't get to all of them):
1. One review each for Active Writers and Chat
2. Submit something. Anything. Anywhere. Just get off your butt and do it.
3. There's so much work to do on Complexity, I can do whatever I feel like.
4. A couple draft poems to maybe make it in the poetry journal. Must have a look-see.
5. An article on the different Buddhas, got to be done by week after next.
6. I feel like reading. A lot. |
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I'm just going to go back to using the notebook the way I did before. I have no idea if that's going to put my writing status updates in some poor soul's in box, but I guess you can hide them or un-favorite me or something if that happens.
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| I don't get it. After I hid the whole notebook, how could there be a new comment? I dumped all my favorites, but I'm not sure whether that will do anything. I don't get why I'd want to hide the comments. I've got no objection to anyone in particular, I just want to opt out of the feature itself. |
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| How do I make it go away? |
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| So, this week I'm doing 4 WYRM reviews. As soon as those are completed, I'll finish a couple articles for work. Any of this that's not done by the end of the day Sunday just isn't going to get done. I'll spend the rest of August on hiatus for all groups except chat (which is on hiatus half the month anyway.) During that time, I'll probably keep working on articles, but zero reviews (except chat). |
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| okay, ya no wat, i'm sick of being RESPONSIBLE!!!! SICk of spelingcorecly. I been at werk thirteen hors and tomorrow twelve. an ya no wat??? All i wanna fuckin do is read furkcin keats. |
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| A clean-up weekend. I've also discovered something: I'm not destined to write literary fiction. I can read it, but I don't have it in me to write it very well. Maybe later. |
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| Whatever writing time I can scrounge on Saturday and Sunday will be devoted to reviewing. Monday and Tuesday will focus on creative time. |
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Okay, forget that last thing. You know, I'm still recovering. From. . .you know. It's like, I have all these places in my life that need to get settled before I can really concentrate.
Serious writing on hiatus til June 1, & ask the about taking a week off work asap. Rest of May: concentrate on fine-tuning the group procedures & items. I'll keep up my reviews. And I'll journal every day. Well, except today, coz I'm reflooring a whole damn room tomorrow and need to move furniture. |
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This novel-writing-every-day business is going very, very badly--in part because it's the window time of May, between frost and mosquitoes, when the garden calls. Not that I can't do some every day if I want, but I'm shifting my priorities:
MWF novel
TuTh submissions, poetry & articles
SatSun reviewing & poetry
I also try to do a little group something-or-other each day, though at this point I've got quite a backlog of it. Maybe clear some of that up this SatSun weekend. |
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| This weekend, I mostly just want to continue drafting Complexity. I'll also do a few chapter reviews, and look through (or at least find) my NaNo version of Complexity. Maybe a poetry submission too, and The Anubis Gift is ready to go whenever I find a new venue. |
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Going through port systematically. I've got two clipboards going, one for items and one for venues. Mix & match.
Organize house and garden. I'm going out to dig a pea patch as soon as I'm dressed. (Properly dressed, that is.) Trying to mess around with Feng Shui, but cleaning the place is 95% of it.
Monday or Tuesday, whichever the weather gods favor, an Arboretum jog. I'd go up to Cherokee, but I need to hit TJs. Wonder if they'd have the Perelandra Garden Workbook in the Gift Shop? |
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Poem done. Novella being proofread. Not starting the next novel till Beltane, and anyway I'm planning to draft at a leisurely pace.
So. I'm taking my port and,skipping the group stuff, going head to toe, cleaning up, making back-ups, revising, submitting, adding stories and poems to my website, sticking junk on review boards or dart boards, as appropriate. |
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Still didn't get the poem done, but the novella's a wrap. Remind me next time how much work that is.
Saturday & Sunday, no writing planned -- just reviewing and group organization stuff.
Monday & Tuesday, the poem. Plus a bunch of creative work and reading. I'm sort of having a "retreat" at home this weekend. This will also give me a chance to pick up the approximately 10,000 sticks and branches that have fallen in my backyard in the past month. |
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| By the end of Tuesday, I need to rework Moundwalker, see if I've got any other poems that fit "Earthworks," and send it off. Other than that, I'm still working with the 4-15 deadline for Mythology. |
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| I'm super distracted, with Kid A leaving for the Army early tomorrow, so no writing until things settle down. I'll have some free time, though, since I got Sunday (today) off work, so I may actually catch up on some reviewing. |
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| It's taking forever to edit Mythology. Who'd have thought fifteen little chapters could take so much work? Anyway, I'm giving myself an extra couple of weeks and extending my deadline to April 15. Hopefully I'll actually get done before that, but with Kid A having a birthday and then heading off to Basic, my personal life is pretty busy too. |
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| For the next two days, I'm going to relax and take things as they come. |
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| Tonight & Sunday: chat questions, three reviews (or four if the poem shows up again), then work on poetry, especially revisions, though I might to another poet bio. Mon & Tues: Mythology tune-up. If time, continue playing with poetry. In group docs, fix profile info and make reviewing clearer, then make Handy Book group only. |
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| 9:00 this morning: I'm turning all computers off, getting a fresh pad of paper, a fresh cup of coffee, and outlining. I don't even know which project yet, but I'm going for it. |
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| I'm starting a group, of all things. So far it's a group of one. But organizing it will probably take up all my writing time for the next couple days. After that, it's gonna be submit, submit, submit until the end of February. |
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| Goof off weekend! I'm going to read, play with my website, take a walk (it's above freezing today!), and scribble on little pieces of paper while sitting in bed and drinking coffee. |
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| This isn't going to be a big writing weekend. Time to do the blasted taxes, and get the rest of my finances in order while I'm at it. With my minimum daily requirement writing time, I think I'll work on articles and get out at least one poetry sub. |
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| Hey, why do I have 103 items in my port??? Get rid of some of this shit! |
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1. Finish & submit Pumpkin Cheesecake & Red Dog Honeymoon. I've got to stop obsessing on RDH and finish it. I've been revising at a rate of about two paragraphs per session. Totally ridiculous.
2. Work on poetry. Lots of poetry. I've got poems to draft, poems to revise, and poems to submit. |
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Got stuck on Red Dog Honeymoon, because every time I opened it up and started reading I just HATED the opening. That's extra important in that story too, because without the framing it's just a contextless anecdote.
So goal one this week is to finish it. The other thing will simply be to work on poetry. I've got tons of poems at all stages. |
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After Tuesday, then got lost in work. I'm learning and doing a bazillion new things, continuing this week with a focus on articles.
Now through Saturday:
- Get my two weekly reviews completed a little earlier this week
- Polish one of my article drafts
- Research a couple more
- Finish revising Red Dog Honeymoon (I'm that close!) and submit
- Start my next lesson
- When all this is done, or more likely if it isn't, write poems. I feel myself slipping inexorably into poet mode.
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Focusing on rewrites this week:
Sunday - Law of Persimmons, Kumquats (& submit)
Monday - Red Dog Honeymoon
Tuesday - Loup Garou
Wednesday - Parable of Tarnished Gold
Thursday - On a Working Farm
Friday - $56.37
Saturday - We're being abducted by invaders from Earth
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Back after a month off. Revising is taking forever! Priorities:
1. Finish revisions to Red Dog Honeymoon
2. Get in a review each for WYRM and Let's Publish
3. Send out items that don't need revision. (Or that I foolishly think don't need revision. Same diff.) |
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FINISHED!!!!! My little mini-nano that I started mid-October, working out some heavy revisions on Mythology, is done. D-O-N-E, Done!
For the rest of the weekend, I need to put in reviews on two LP stories, which I've already read, and get back into my poetry homework. |
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| No, Asymm, no one uses the notebooks any more. But since I'm already here, I must say there's a strong family resemblance and what's up with the running shoes? |
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| One chapter per day, starting today. That means I'll be done two Mondays from now. Yeep! |
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| This weekend, something a little different. I'm going to get a series on nonfiction articles started for the store newsletter I edit. Also, I'm going to draw. I want pictures of the world that's the backdrop of Mythology. Pretty soon I want to get back to work at editing that. |
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This weekend:
Finish Gambit first draft.
Work like a maniac on Mythology.
Do both poetry rewrites for class, proofread the one going up at VW, and get a start on Unit 4.
Better to get two reviews for WYRM than worry too much about LP, but do what you can. Wouldn't mind taking on another couple chapters of one of those novellas. Any of them-they're all readable.
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Organizing today. This morning, putting hard copies & reviews in folders, especially for poetry class
This afternoon, submitting anything I find lying around that looks ready.
Loup Garou and Pumpkin Cheesecake: up for review. I'll try to submit them by next Tuesday.
From here on, I'm bumping my writing time earlier--5:00 to 7:00, so that most of the morning will be free to deal with my personal life, which is getting complicated. |
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Have you tried the new "Skins"? They are cool.... dig your "Lark and Raven" slider  |
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| Okay, whew, got some stuff cleaned up and I'm rarin' to go. Post card poems, poetry class, revising & submitting stories. Every day 9-11. |
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| Scratch that last entry. Family matters. Forget about the LP marathon, that ain't gonna happen. Three poems and four reviews will get done this weekend. Beyond that, I'll do what I can. |
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Waaaaaay too much to do, but here goes:
Saturday: Review. If I can get one WYRM and one LP done, fantastic. Poem, of course, read on for poetry class, and post chat questions.
Sunday: Journal entry has been waiting for me to write it since Monday. Go for it. Postcard poem.
Monday: Work on Margen or Complexity and post for LP marathon.
Tuesday: Read like maniac. Postcard poem.
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| I'm starting on some new projects this new moon (Tuesday), so a lot of cleaning up for the next two days. Mostly housework and reading, but some writing chores too. Revise Kaltes and clean up port, especially the Limbo and new work folders. I've also got a tidy little reviewing pile. |
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| I have postcard poetry to do every day in August, and I just signed up for a poetry class through the University. Other than that, I'm taking my unfinished stories one at a time, editing them, and submitting. And I have a LOT of unfinished stories! Okay my babies, who wants to go first? |
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This weekend: Keep up the one submission per day, but Monday's will be a rewrite and re-submission.
One WYRM review per day.
Organize photos, and don't forget to send a few to Dorothee.
Work on website.
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| I'm going for one submission per day until everything that's ready is out. Then, on to revising. |
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Today: One Wyrm review (I was too sick yesterday), one Let's Publish review, a complete update of my Duotrope listings, and a clean-up of all three of my e-mail accounts. Get started on new poetry book.
Tomorrow: One more review for each group in the morning. In the afternoon, submit everything that's ready somewhere, and make up a priority list for short story updates. |
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Do you always print items that you plan to review? Humm, that may be a good way for me to get reviews done.... since my online time can be restricted soem days.... do you use red pen?  |
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Right now my priorities are more about unpacking and getting some groceries into the house than writing, but for today:
1. get ready for tonight's chat
2. get in one Wyrm review
3. print & read an item from the Let's Publish board, in preparation for a review tomorrow |
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Jeez, can't I edit these things??? "to nice," hmm, believe something's wrong there. . .
I can actually spell. But I'm an aural person, and if I don't proofread it's very easy for me to type in the wrong version of a word. |
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| Didn't do anything yesterday; the weather was to nice. One more Wyrm review to stay ahead, then it's off to Seattle on Friday. I'll journal every day, and scribble down any poems that show up. Back in mid-July. |
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Sunday: reviews: one Wyrm & three LP
Monday: Play around with BluePrint Review. I want to read a bunch of issues and do the revision of the blog entry Dorothee requested. max two hours
Tuesday: Look around the internet, and read. Half an eye toward placing some of my "problem children." max two hours |
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Monday: finish Mythology ch 9; Wyrm review + one LP review
Tuesday: ch 10; the other two LP reviews
W, Th, F, Sat: the last four chapters |
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| Still working on Mythology, now doing a first revision of the drafts of chapters seven through fourteen. One down, seven to go! But only one per day. If I have any time left over, I want to get something ready for review at Let's Publish. Between vacation and messing around with novels, I've been off the board there for a couple weeks now. |
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| I want six chapters of Mythology revised by the end of Tuesday. I'm going to try and get through Ch 4 today, and get the other two tomorrow morning. If that works out, I'm taking myself to the movies tomorrow afternoon. Also a title just blipped into my head, Pray for Rain, but it isn't exactly the right title, and I don't know what it's the title to. Intuition, gotta love it. |
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| Today I have so much I have to do, I'd better not even think about what I want to do. Five reviews, all for things I haven't even read yet. I've got to write yet another bio. Dan wants to go see a play, and my sister-in-law is coming over. Laundry. Dishes. Should finish shuffling all my submission tracking info over to Duotrope. If I have any time left over from all this, I hardly plan to spend it sitting on my butt. "Write something every day," they say, but some days I don't see how. |
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Monday/Tuesday, getting as far from analytical mode and into creative mode as possible. No reviews, no revisions, no submissions, no cleaning up e-mail or junked-up files. Just sit on the futon, draw and chat with characters, and generally make junk up.
Wednesday through Saturday, start heading the opposite direction. Two more reviews (one for Let's Publish, one for WYRM), a massive Duotrope update, and find a place to submit Fairy's Kiss. |
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| Saturday through Tuesday: Revisions on Margen of the World and Mythology. Imaginative work more than writing. Minimal reviewing, and find somewhere new to send Fairy's Kiss, which got bounced back. |
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| Wednesday through Monday: Revise. Submit. Repeat. I want to have at least one poetry, one story, and one non-fiction submission ready by the time we leave for Florida, as well as a queue of items waiting to get on the Let's Publish boards. |
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| Not too much writing this weekend. What there is will be revising & submitting, plus the usual number of reviews. |
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| I'm not getting anything done this week, grrrrrr. It's already Friday, and I hoped to be heavily into revisions, hopefully have something to submit, but it hasn't happened. I've been out in the garden every spare minute, but it's raining today so here goes. Goals: Another submission to Verse Wisconsin by the end of Saturday, and try to identify something to work up for Everyday Fiction. |
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| Back after a week's vacation with the novella drafted, a new story, and I forget how many journal entries and poems. Too much to upload right now. For Sunday-Tuesday this week, I'll be organizing. The priorities will be: posting new items, catching up reviews & other miscellaneous site duties, and organizing submissions. I'll log them on Duotrope as I have time, but I'm way behind on that. |
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| Beware of putting your birthday on public view--it can lead to identity theft. (But hey, this site makes it so easy now!) |
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| Change of plan: I'll be starting my weeklong break on Sunday. Which means I've got to squeeze in two more reviews today, on my busiest work day. Too busy reviewing to write--did I really say that?--but I'll be drafting the last three chapters of Mythology while I'm offline. |
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| Wednesday, finish revamping ch 1 of Mythology; Thursday/Friday work on Ch. 11 & maybe 12; Saturday/Sunday, get in 3 reviews for LP & clean up port |
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| Saturday: finish Sam's transcript; Sunday: get in 3 reviews for LP, edit Green Tea; Monday & Tuesday: revise Margen of the World & Mythology Ch. 1, and Fairy's Kiss if there's time |
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Hmmm... becoming fans of items... hadn't considered that approach. Um... I slid your slider.  |
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| Hello, I was just looking for sliders to play with, and I love yours so I left them well alone |
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Hi, Asymmetrical- I love your sliders  |
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Tues: final edits to Squirrel Logic, Green Tea & Cairn. Submit batch of form poems (Mezzo Cammin?), non-form poems (Verse Wisconsin), and heaven-help-us Squirrel Logic (River & Sound)
Weds: finish revising Margen of the World
Thurs: review Louise's story
Fri: look through Mythology chap & post questions |
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| Whoa. We can be our own fan? Hmm. And hi! |
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| Hey cool, I just became a fan of myself! Is that tacky or what? |
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| Isn't this fun? I always thought I should put up a guest book, but didn't want to clutter my port with it. |
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| Hi there! |
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| IM WRITIN IN UR NOTEBOOK N THERES NOTHIN U CAN DO ABOUT IT NA NA NA NA BOO BOO. |
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