Re-envisioning

I had a creative writing lecturer who was adamant that the second draft of a story be pretty much completely different. Revision, he said, was another way to say ‘re-envision’ which meant you pulled out the core elements of the story, twisted them up and plopped them down on the page again. In his mind, [...]

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Six Months

Today, my little girl is six months old. SIX MONTHS!!!! That went by really fast – way faster than I expected. It’s been an amazing time, in so many different ways, and I have a hard time remembering what life used to be like without her.
She is a little person now. She has a personality, [...]

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One more day

And today is that day! I have lots to do if I want to get everything tidied up before tomorrow – I have a very strong feeling that I won’t quite be finished with the edits on Lifelines, but I am okay about that. I can complete the last bits in early January as well [...]

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Sunday

I managed to get three hours of editing done yesterday. I’m almost a third of the way through the novel, which was the goal, but oh well! Today I’ll hopefully make some more good progress and be getting close to having this minor things done by the time Christmas rolls around.
I’m still enjoying it, and [...]

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Wednesday

Time is really flying by at the moment. It feels like only yesterday it was December 1st, now it’s the 17th.
Plunket nurse comes today and I am looking forward to seeing how much Lauren has grown since the nurse was here two weeks ago. Baby is being very sleep resistant in the day at the [...]

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6 week check up

It’s happening today, and I am a little… something, about it. I don’t know what the right word is.
How are you meant to feel when you’re going back to your Dr for the first time since she told you that you were pregnant? The first time you’d actually ever met  her, and she told you [...]

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Making an effort

Last night, hubby and I did something we haven’t done since the birth of Lauren.
No, I’m not talking about anything x-rated – this certainly isn’t the place for that! lol
I rented a DVD and we sat on the same couch, at the same time, and watched it together. Man it was nice.
It’s been really easy [...]

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ah well

Nothing more got done last night! lol And I’m not going to worry about it too much. I sat/lay down on the couch to feed Lauren at about 8pm and we both fell asleep until 11pm. Hubby was still playing Fable 2, and I’m not even sure he noticed that’d we’d fallen asleep [...]

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Feeling better and the month ahead

We actually had a pretty good sleep. I think there were only a couple times that we woke up, or me anyways. Lauren might have had a grizzle and I might not have noticed, I was pretty darn tired.
In any event. Today is a new day, and having one really rough day in the first [...]

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Writing or lack there of

That’s not entirely true. I did manage one 10min writing spree and it pushed me up to around 94.7K. Which isn’t bad, it’s just not where I had hoped to be after yesterday. One would have thought that having an Ivy free day would mean I’d get stuff done, but apparently not.
I tidied in the [...]

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