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Miranda: Yeah, I’m writing, but OUCH

Posted in Miranda, tagged , , , , on October 26, 2009 | 19 Comments »

What lengths will you go to in order to protect your creative time?
I’ve come to depend on my Saturday morning “me time.” My husband and I split the weekend mornings; he gets Sunday. This means I can either sleep in on Saturdays or get up early and start writing — or a combination of the [...]

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Cathy: Mishap Tai Chi

Posted in Cathy, tagged , , , , , , on May 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Those of you who have been getting to know me here may have begun to notice a certain tendency toward being a wee-bit cock-eyed or shall we say, taking a lot of left turns off path. I think I read that old Robert Frost poem at a very young age and have taken the [...]

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Christa: Committed

Posted in Christa, tagged , , on February 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I did it: committed to one project. I’ll be working on one of my novellas for the next six weeks.
How did this come about? Well, it’s a little convoluted. This year, with Rain Dog and I considering not only the possibility of moving, but also of him partnering with me in an expanded freelance business, [...]

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Christa: Caught up… and discombobulated

Posted in Christa, tagged , , on January 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The schedule I committed to two weeks ago turned out very interestingly last week. Instead of making excuses as to why I wasn’t writing, I saw my productivity skyrocket (comparatively) and my memory–at least for where I was on which projects–improve. As a result, I can say I’m caught up on work. Not “done,” not [...]

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Jenn: I finished the first chapter of the book I’m not writing.

Posted in Jenn, tagged , on January 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Miranda didn’t understand what I meant by this title when I wrote it to her in an e-mail. I’ll admit it’s an uncharacteristically cryptic statement to come out of my logical Virgo brain, and Miranda’s similar Virgo brain rightly had a problem with it.
The thing is, I was innocently sitting (sitting innocently? DAMM! [...]

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