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If I haven't been posting my miraculous success as a morning person, you can interpret that fairly easily, right?I did get up early today, but I couldn't THINK. How am [...]

By |June 24, 2011|Categories: Black Hour, Writing, Writing life|

Wednesday a.m.

And I'm up and typing. My eyes, they don't work. It's raining here—that does not help. If it keeps thundering, though, I will have saved myself a dog walk. Ursa [...]

By |June 15, 2011|Categories: Writing|

Today

My total word count for the day, writing for an hour this morning before I could be trusted to be coherent and for probably 45 minutes at lunch, is 940.That [...]

By |June 15, 2011|Categories: Black Hour, Writing, Writing life|

687 words this morning!

This is probably going to get tedious for anyone who isn't a writer. I'm sorry. This is just where I need to be right now.I'll scrape together some new dog [...]

By |June 14, 2011|Categories: Black Hour, Writing|

6:04 a.m.

And typing.Greg doesn't like my new alarm. It sounds like his pager from work.Well, I never liked how his alarm had to go off five times before he got up. [...]

By |June 14, 2011|Categories: Writing|

Words today: 818

Eight hundred words isn't a gasp-inducing take for the day, but it's a respectable haul, and the story is still moving.I'm going to do it again.The downside is that it's [...]

By |June 14, 2011|Categories: Black Hour, Writing|

New thing follow-up

This morning's experiment in getting up earlier to write might have been made better by-Going to bed a bit earlier. I was up until 11 reading Claire DeWitt and the [...]

By |June 13, 2011|Categories: Writing, Writing life|

New thing

I'm up early to write. New alarm clock makes awful electronic beep sound. Effective.

By |June 13, 2011|Categories: Writing|