• 17:23 @domynoe so sorry sugs. I really hope you guys wipe the floor with those scumbags. #
• 21:38 @Magic_BW write one that works ;) #

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• 08:24 OK. couple of days off for sick kids and family visits. Back to #nanowrimo today. Start count: 42,793 #
• 17:16 RT @domynoe: Begging for help: domynoe.livejournal.... I'm just trying to keep a roof o/our heads. #
• 17:31 sorry busted link in my last post. try this one: bit.ly/2EeMez #

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• 21:17 @gracebrierwood You can do it!! #

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My first Christmas without my mom, there was this one little present... one of the last things she ever did was order two presents - one for me and one for my brother. Mine is a little limoges box. A red stocking with two kittens peeking out, an orange tabby and a black and white tuxedo cat. At the time, I had Marmelade (the orange tabby) and Lucky (the black tuxedo). It's the only christmas decoration that I never put away. It's the last thing I have from her and, while it may not be the best best (that would be the covellite necklace she designed for me), it's the one with the most impact.

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• 08:42 Hey creative type people - need a little help. Strong, short, not overused male name... I'm stuck. #

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• 15:23 Oldest has decided that today is a good day to be ill. no #nanowrimo for me. #

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• 07:55 And when one question unravels the plot for the second half of the novel? What then? You change the rules... #amwriting #nanowrimo #
• 17:22 only 11k to go... #nanowrimo #amwriting #
• 17:51 @ericahayes I'm just glad to be writing again - been WAY too long... How's it going? #
• 18:58 @ericahayes oooh :) that's when it's most fun - all wide open, nothing but potential :) good luck! #

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• 07:58 Today's nanogoal: 5k. At this point, I'm ready to be done so I can start the revisions. #nanowrimo #
• 12:50 nap time just went poof... people here to cut up the parts car and take it away. LOUD. #
• 13:18 ok. nm. the didn't use the saw I expected but the very quiet torch thingy. Very quiet for dismantling a hunk of blue machinery. #
• 23:07 didn't make half the progress I wanted today, but I still managed about 2k. And a lot of notes about what needs fixed later. #nanowrimo #

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• 17:34 today has been better - feeling a little better, definately got more words today. May hit yesterday's goal. #

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Having nanowrimo to push me, I've actually been making myself write. And it turns out that, past the day one flub, I've done pretty well at maintaining a daily thing (excepting yesterday when I felt like snarf). I think this is the closest I've felt to normal (for me) as I've felt all year. I cannot begin to explain how nice that feels. (totally unrelated note... pandora just totally messed with my mood and started playing rikki martin after about an hour of nice dark instrumentals... Usually I love pandora but that kinda made me lose my focus) Anyway - I'm really hoping that this keeps going, pushes into the rest of the year. I really need a bit of normal in my life right now.

In wordcount world - I'm nearly 35k into this one and it's rough - really really really rough - and will be expanded probably doubled in the rewrites - maybe more if this does turn out to be the sketch of two books and not one. I write weird. I don't outline, I don't do character work, I just sit down and go. But the very first draft - has virtually no description beyond a few random lines I like. It is the barest of bones type draft, nearly a long outline if you stretch the definition some. The next draft will be longer and better and prettier. Right now - it's about as big a mess as the inside of my head. But, for now, I'm excited about writing again and that's more than enough. This project is really different for me. Not something I've ever written before. A bit of an urban fantasy I think... right now - my pretty little heroine is about to get the upper hand on a woman who has been pretty nasty thus far but is about to have a change of heart. Why you ask? why else? a shared goal... Sometimes, to get things done, you have to turn to someone you would never believe would help. Anyway - I've got to get back to work before she starts being a pain in my head.

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