First, I have water. It came back at about 1:00 ish yesterday afternoon!

Excuse me while I toot my own horn here, but I am kicking total booty in the writing department this week!! Since Sunday - 96 pages! A short story and half of a novella. And I haven’t even started yet today!

It’s amazing how well the story flows when you’re actually excited about what you’re working on! I knew I’ve been struggling lately, but I didn’t realize how much until I started new stuff this week.

Part of it is the awsome motivation I’ve been getting from taking part in 2 (yes 2) BIAW’s this week (that’s a Book In A Week where basically you write until you fingers bleed for those that don’t know). I’m averaging over 19 pages/day.

But now, I have to go back to the other stuff. There’s still 3 unfinished WIP’s over there on the sidebar (ok 2 unfinished and 1 not started) that have to be done. How do I get myself invested in those characters again? How do I make it less painful? How do I average 19 pgs/day on those puppies?

I figured out that to finish (first drafts) of those 3 WIP’s on the Sidebar, if I averaged 19 pages/day, it would take me 40 days to finish all of them. Hmmm, that makes it sound not quite so bad. It’s actually possible that I could finish all of these before the new year (of course that doesn’t take into account editing time, or edits for books already sold) but seriously possible that I could be mostly finished with all of those before the new year.

Wow! That makes it sound not so bad!!

And finally, read this article (poached from the Smart Bitches) - Freaking hilarious!

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