Category: Record reviews
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Write-a-thon, Day 32: My family and other animals
I put an hour and a half of today into the Write-a-thon, though I had to use most of my lunch hour to do it. It was the most interesting part of my work day, that’s for sure! “Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else’s…
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Write-a-thon, Day 31: Faster than a bullet that has yet to leave the barrel
There are 11 days left to go in the Write-a-thon and though I wrote again today I have to admit that my original goal of hitting 50,000 words by August 2 was just a wee bit optimistic. I’ll be lucky if I get to 30,000. I do wish I wrote…
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Write-a-thon, Day 30: Do ya think I’m texty?
The biggest challenge for me when returning to my regular life following a vacation that includes my family is food. I just spent a week ingesting 22,000 calories per day, including anything that swims and whatever comes out of an ice cream scoop. Basically, someone stepped on my foot, I…
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Write-a-thon, Day 29: It’s the end of the vacation as we know it (and I feel fine)
Finally found a boat I can afford! I’m back from Cape Cod with plans to build either a lighthouse or a windmill in the backyard. We had a wonderful, though emotional, trip, with many indelible moments; for example, the store on the New Bedford waterfront that advertised the four basic…
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Write-a-thon, Day 15: As prolific as I wanna be
I wrote 700 words this week. That is, I kept 700 words. I wrote many more than that. “Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer,” Colette said. “But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity,…