Busy few days

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Unfortunately, all my time hasn’t been spent making writing my day job. I have, however, managed to get a few things done. On Sunday, I wrote another 1,000+ words on Meg and Matt’s story, bringing

A successful writing week

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Last Saturday, we had our NARWA meeting and I was inspired to launch “Operation Treat Writing Like a Day Job.” Today I capped off my operation, which admittedly isn’t as amusing as “Operation Snag Mike

Not much

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Writing fell victim to necessity today: I HAD to shovel snow and then get to work early again. Then, since I was actually home early, I HAD to watch Conan’s last “Tonight Show.” I did,

Internet outage

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I couldn’t check in last night because the Internet stopped working. Unlike “the dog ate my homework,” this is no excuse. I was happily blogging away and couldn’t publish my post. Sometime between the time

Now I’m on a roll

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I sure am more productive when I can’t leave the house on my day off! That’s not entirely true: I did make it to Starbucks for a couple of hours this afternoon. I got some

Readin’ & Thinkin’

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It’s better than wishin’ and hopin’, I guess. I did spend more than an hour writing today, so “Operation Treat Writing Like a Day Job” is still going strong on Day 3. The bad news

An hour later …

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Not long after I finished my last post, I decided to check my gmail account one more time. I certainly wasn’t expecting what awaited me there … … a reply from one of the agents

Mission accomplished

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Checking in again: I didn’t spent quite an hour treating writing as my day job today (Monday), but I did accomplish what I set out to do. That’s right — I sent out two query

Checking in

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I’d call Day 1 of “Operation Treat Writing Like a Day Job” an unqualified success. I spent about 2 1/2 hours finishing the read-through on my rough draft of “Blind Date Bride” and revised my

Inspired

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Again, I went to my NARWA meeting … and again I was inspired by a great speaker. Jennifer Ashley talked about how to finish that manuscript and get it published. And as usual, I had