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Cathy: The Next Big Thing

Posted in Cathy, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 8, 2009 | 5 Comments »

crossposting from musings in mayhem
Why is it even when I have several projects I could be working on, narrowed to two that I am working on (read procrastinating) that I generally have at least part of my writer’s eye on The Next Big Thing?
This is also true in the home improvement arena, you should see [...]

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When what you want to do most is write–and what you want to do least is write

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on March 9, 2009 | 6 Comments »

When it seems like you’ll do anything and everything rather than show up at the page, turn to Jerry Oltion’s 50 Strategies for Making Yourself Work. His piece is full of gems. Here’s the intro:
Work avoidance is one of the major paradoxes of the writing profession. Generally, writers want to write (or want to have [...]

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Judge a book by its cover

Posted in Miranda, tagged , on November 20, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Not that any of us needs another way to waste time online (ahem), but I can’t help but share Judge By. Go to the site and you’ll see a random book cover from Amazon.com. Guess how good you think the book is, based on its cover. After you click your assessment, you’ll see what Amazon [...]

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Cathy: 24 ways to avoid your manuscript

Posted in Cathy, tagged on October 7, 2008 | 14 Comments »

Distractions after announcement of finding the creative groove:

Joined Obama campaign as a volunteer.
Sleep deprivation from Baby C, even though we started her on foods very successfully.
Now, if she’d only poop a good one. It’s been days. Poopwatch.
Wrote a letter of recommendation for a friend’s aspie son to get into a good private school, since he’s [...]

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Cathy: Prior complaints

Posted in Cathy, tagged , , on August 14, 2008 | 10 Comments »

After my prior complaints of not feeling like I am writing enough and my excuses-disguised-as-reasons blogs, I took a couple of pages from Christa Miller’s comments and Suzanne Kamata’s Breakfast interview. I squeezed in a little writing in my novel this week. Granted, it was a little, and I hope a little more today. Baby [...]

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