Category: music
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Write-a-thon, Day 9: Been caught writing
This morning I went to work on a Monday for the first time in five months. And I spent the whole day at a desk. I could only do one activity and someone else thought it up for me. How do people do this?? This assignment will be over in…
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Write-a-thon, Day 8: Don’t stop ’til you write enough
I was up until 1:30am in the wake of our party, and then I had to get up relatively early to reassemble the house and garden and take my Little Brother to see Monsters University (which I recommend) and then to lunch at Taco Bell (which I don’t). The temperature…
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Write-a-thon, Day 7: Who’s to blame when parties get out of hand?
Trying to write on the day when you’re holding a twilight garden party is probably not the best idea, but I somehow managed an hour of working on my book. A character I had mentioned in passing appeared again, this time with a betting game he liked to play. I…
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Write-a-thon, Day 6: “A player on a streak has to respect the streak”
Bildungsroman After hours of wrestling with customer service and how to teach it to people who spend their days testing oil viscosity and tracking down Mason jars sent in by irate customers, the last thing I wanted to do was light a fire under my brain. But Crash Davis was right.…
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Write-a-thon, Day 5: Write another day
(Image borrowed from the 2011 Wordstock Festival.) This morning I had a job interview and this afternoon I worked onsite for a freelance client. In one day I went from health care to lubrication analysis to trains in the mountains in 1947. You have to be flexible if you want…
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