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It’s been a pretty good vacation. We went on a few day trips–to Orlando to visit a friend, to Tampa for Lowry Park Zoo and mouth-watering lunch at Grass Root, and to Sarasota for an afternoon at the Selby Botanical Gardens. I swam almost every morning, and we’ve eaten healthy meals, so I’ve avoided gaining [...]

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Today is an unpaid furlough day for me and Sweetie burned a paid day off to hang out with me. We also leveraged the long weekend into ten straight days off by scheduling vacation days for the rest of next week. Too bad we can’t really afford to do anything spectacular. I’ll write, of course, [...]

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This morning I exceeded 12,000 words on NHI. That’s between 15% and 20% of the initial draft, which I anticipate will be somewhere between 60,000 and 70,000 words. If it’s at the lower end of that range, it will mean that the plot is a little thin and I’ll beef it up in revision. Meanwhile, [...]

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Yet again, I’ve let weeks go by without an update. When I get busy, I tend not to notice time passing. And I’ve been busy. Here’s what I’ve been doing since I last posted. I added quite a bit to “Big Little Blonde,” but got stuck and put it aside to get some distance. Oddly, [...]

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A sure sign that I’ve lost my way is that I start to think about going to law school. It happened again last month, so I spent some time re-examining my goals last week. I reached a few conclusions: 1. I reminded myself that I’m not writing fiction for the money. That’s not to say [...]

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