The day was going down the tubes, until I got a CHALL-ONGE! from my writer friend, Chris. Apparently I still feel a little competitive with Christopher Coake, even though he has clearly gone on to play in a different league altogether than the one we used to…
That’s right, babies. I wrote a heck of a lot today (compared to the daily totals this week, with all the socializing). 1523 words today. I am pleased with myself. I owe it all to air conditioning, kids. If I had to sit on my backporch where…
Didn’t get around to posting this last night. Had to watch “Juno” and eat pizza. The work of a writer: never done. Except on Friday nights, when there’s pizza. Yesterday’s total was 1323 words. Score. Now that’s a day I need to find a way to repeat….
Did 1045 words at Caribou Coffee today. A little bit of socializing, because who did I see at Caribou? Another RU student. This time, one of the MFA students (Katie.) This is a different Caribou Coffee in a totally different part of the Chicagoland area, but my…
1070 words today, as of 4:15 p.m. That was with a whole lotta socializing. Need to work on that. Tomorrow. EDITED TO ADD: I thought I’d written that I’d met an RU student in the Caribou in Oak Park, but apparently that was on Facebook. I ran…
All signs point to me being offered a job soon. There are very few reasons why I wouldn’t accept such an offer and we still need to get through that part, but I’m thinking positively that we’ll work it out. So if I get a job offer…
Milestone reached today: I’ve tapped 60, 000 words into a single Word file. I’m not, sadly, done with this file, this so-called novel. I figure I have about 20,000 left to go, and then a lot of cleaning up to do, before I can start to feel…
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