Learning curves

Well, this round of critiques is almost over, and I have to say I’ve come out of it a lot better off than the last time.
With my first story I got 8 crits, and while most of them were helpful, they really only applied to that particular story. There were so many conflicting opinions about [...]

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Second time around

So I have another story up at Critters this week, and second time around I feel none of the anxiety that I did the first time. It’s strange really,  even to the point where I keep forgetting that I might be recieving crits in the near future – I don’t have that constant desire to [...]

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9K and an almost tooth

I put Lauren to bed last night, got back up and wrote for a half hour or so – managed to pound out enough words to get me through to just over 9,000. You know what? I might just be able to hit the 10K I said I’d like to today! It’s exciting to see [...]

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Jan 1st

Well, it went reasonably well. Though I’ve learned my lesson and I’ll not be leaving my writing until the evening to get done – I just don’t think it’s going to work that well if I do
I’d wanted to get through about 1000 words on Mocha Nihilism. I managed 738. Definitely better than [...]

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The next few days

Yesterday I managed to get the first lot of edits on Lifelines done (yay me!). It was pretty cool – I had a lot of pages to go but I was up really early and just got into it.
There are only a couple of days until Jan 1st when I get to launch into Mocha [...]

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Merry Christmas!

Well, it’s Christmas morning – earlier than I expected to be up, but here I am all the same. I kind of misread the clock this morning, so when Ivy called out I said she could get up – turns out it was only 6, not 7… ah well!
Thankfully there are some Christmas cartoons on [...]

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Excitement

Considering that 9 months ago (round about), I was having a hard time getting into editing Lifelines – almost to the point of bashing my head against the wall and giving up on the dream completely – I am feeling pretty darn good about it these days.
At that point, I hadn’t yet admitted that it [...]

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The month so far

Feeling as though I am making good progress on the months goals, I thought I’d look back at what they were exactly and see how I am doing.
Finish Ayden – done!
Get to work on editing Lifelines – have begun.
Edit for the editing challenge – 5/20 hours so far. Only started last week.
Plan for Mocha Nihilism [...]

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Nervous excitement

So, I’ve finished marking up this short story. I am pretty sure I can make all the necessary changes today, and when that’s done I’ll be submitting it to the queue over at Critters.
Eeek!
I’ve gone over it in the same way I would someone elses story. It’s not going to be perfect when I submit [...]

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10 sleeps til Xmas

Well, that’s what I heard this morning anyway – not many to go at all! I really need to get myself sorted out and everything finalized for it soon. I only have a few things left to get/sort out, biggest on the list is getting some nice photos of the girls to put into frames [...]

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