Yesterday

Oct 28 , 2005
It’s not long past dawn here. My office is still dark. I turned on a light, and turned it right back off. No lights. The dawn darkness suits my mood. Yesterday was hard. It [...]
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Tired

Oct 25 , 2005
Six pages kept. Seven pages edited out. Seven really good pages edited out. They read well. They were powerful and intriguing, and they had nothing to do with the character in [...]
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Ramblings near the end

Oct 24 , 2005
I use music so that when I play that particular piece, I know I’m working on this book. It gets me in the mind set, the groove, whatever. But there comes a point in any book [...]
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Last scene, at last

Oct 22 , 2005
This is the last scene. Not the last chapter, but the last scene. The last scene could take me another hundred pages, but I sure as hell hope not. It’s so complex, or [...]
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A better day

Oct 17 , 2005
Better day today. After backing up a little, ie . . . dumping some pages, I got fifteen pages done, and we’re at 961 pages in total. I’m hoping the last sex scene is [...]
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Anxiety dreams, but not all mine

Oct 16 , 2005
I had anxiety dreams last night. Not my anxiety dreams. Anita’s anxiety dreams. I spent much of last night searching for my gun because I was going to have to report to the [...]
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Sick and frustrated

Oct 12 , 2005
The kiddo is home sick. She started with a fever on Sunday, and it was a 102.something a few minutes ago. Doctor says it’s a virus and you just have to let it run it’s [...]
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Gone Writing, be back soon

Oct 11 , 2005
I feel like I should just hang a sign on the blog, “Gone Writing, be back soon.” I think until the book is done, that the blog will be spotty, at best. Sorry. [...]
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Getting my butt kicked.

Oct 03 , 2005
The book is kicking my butt. Over nine hundred pages and the end is only a misty image on a horizon that no longer seems to get any closer. I’d planned on writing about how [...]
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Long

Sep 26 , 2005
Page 878, and no end in sight. If things keep up at this pace, and plot, this may be the longest Anita book ever. I may finally break that thousand page mark. Not a goal I ever [...]
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