Ramblings

In Mpls

I was one of the lucky ones — I got to the airport and I managed to fly out of Seattle on time. I’m at my brother’s house for the holidays. I spent the day working, then went with my brother and his wife to see “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” at the

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Anticipation

It looks like MN or WY outside outside, that thin blue in the sky reflecting the deep purple shadows of the snow — very pretty, and very cold. There’s supposed to be another huge storm coming tonight. They’re predicting snow, high winds, power outages, etc. As bright and clear as it is right now it’s

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Managing LJ

One of the reasons why I don’t frequent this LJ is because the FL is daunting. I used to have the policy of just friending back everyone who friended me. But there are 170 people on it and it’s too big. So I’m “defriending” a bunch of folks — just to make it this LJ

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Update!

I just officially passed the halfway point in the rewrite of the first novel. I believe that the other chapters won’t require the amount of massaging that these did, but we’ll see. Hope ya’ll are having a wonderful weekend. The leaves are starting to change colors here. I switched the picture on the background of

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rewrites

The rewrites keep halting. I come to a section that needs some work and I can’t just push through it. I need to step back, to think, to let my unconscious figure out what really needs to go there. Then I steam forward again — until the next section. It isn’t like the sections that

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