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Happy Memorial Day
May
25
, 2009
Happy Memorial Day everyone! We celebrated by doing a four day weekend with friends. Jon and I had a great time. We visited, shared meals, and enjoyed a beautiful few days in [...]
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Novella is Done
May
21
, 2009
I intended to blog last night after I finished the novella, but I finished at almost exactly 1:00 AM, so the blog post would have been today’s anyway. Besides, I was too [...]
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Girls Night out at the Gym
May
19
, 2009
I’ve joined a gym. I swore I’d never do it again, but they actually have leg machines that I can use with my injured ankle. I’m getting all this tone in my upper [...]
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Typing Speed
May
18
, 2009
When I say my typing speed is about 200 words a minute, I don’t mean in the traditional learn it in school way. In school I damn near flunked typing, which they made us [...]
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The Ming Dynasty and the Muse
May
17
, 2009
Took Trinity to the St. Louis Art Museum to see the last day of the Ming Dynasty exhibit. She’s loved archeology since she was about five. Jon and I like it, but it’s [...]
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A Saturday at Home Together
May
16
, 2009
8 pages today. Short piece still going well. Trinity and I watched "Fairy Tale" the movie about the two young girls that took the fairy photos in the early 1900s. The [...]
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Twitter and a fun Villain
May
15
, 2009
I did eight pages today on the short piece. I’ve actually twittered several times today about the writing already, so I feel like I’ve already talked about it. Twitter [...]
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Strategy Meeting
May
14
, 2009
My agent, Merrilee, visited from New York today. It was basically a strategy meeting. Where we are; where we want to be. What I’m making; what I want to make. What [...]
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Some Days you just need Flame Boots!
May
13
, 2009
I was having a tough day of writing. Nothing was working. It was just a discouraging and uninspired day. I’d put heels on for my ankle, but discovered that though my ankle [...]
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Storm, roses, Blood Noir and Skin Trade
May
12
, 2009
Storm rolling in and I suddenly have a sixty pound lap dog. Pippin does not like storms. We got some puppy appeasement spray that you put on a kerchief and put around his neck. [...]
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