M.J. Fredrick's Blog, page 115

Urgency

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I have a weird sense of urgency to write today. I've fallen behind since I haven't been home much the past 3 days. I'm 3500 words behind my goal on the short story, 1000 words behind on the paranormal and 25 pages behind on the revisions. So....once the dh goes to work, I'm pounding out words until the battery dies. Then I might clean the bathrooms. Maybe.

I'm thinking about doing a book in a month challenge for July. I know some will be at National, but does an

And the Winner is.....

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Baby Blue 22!! Congratulations! Let me know what book you choose! Thanks so much, everyone, for coming by!

I wrote until midnight and met only 2 of 3 writing goals for the day. No exercise and no cleaning. Today's going to be another day like that. We'll see which goals get met.

The Wild Rose Press Blog Bouquet

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Today is the

Stop and Smell the Roses Blog Bouquet

All Day – Monday – June 22, 2009

A blog tour hosted by the authors of
The Wild Rose Press.

Visit the participating authors' blogs. At every stop, leave a comment by 9 AM Tuesday and be entered to win a prize from that author.

Leave a comment below for a chance to win a print copy of Where There’s Smoke, or a download of Bull by the Horns, one of the Wayback Rodeo titles!



Blurb for Where There’s Smoke:

Lauren Stokes put

Goals for Week of Father's Day

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1) celebrate Father’s Day and dh’s bday, both Sunday



2) go to VP’s dad’s funeral—very sad
3) finish paranormal/start revisions
4) write short story
5) breakfast with Mom
6) blog at Samhellion
7) make 2 t-shirt dresses, a skirt and a pillow
8) grocery store/library
9) finish watching 30 Rock, Rescue Me
10) nap/exercise daily
11) keep house up

Friday Miss

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I’ve not met my goal yet today, between going to the grocery store/library/JoAnn Fabric, following the brouhaha on ESPAN (no, I like you too much to give you a link. Seriously, I lost HOURS there today, and it's all repetition at this point anyway), and also cutting a ton of words from the paranormal, again. Once when I was 41 words from my goal. Now I’m 464 words away. Laptop battery is charging, so I think I’ll take a bath, read a bit, and dive back in. YAY,

Too Goal Oriented?

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Today I'm blogging at The Romance Studio about filling the well. At least go over and take a look at the fabric I fell in love with at JoAnn's yesterday.

I'm wondering if I've become too goal-oriented lately. I finished the Texas revisions ahead of schedule, because when I finished my other goals for the day, I went back to work on it. Then, did I rest those days? Nope, I started revising Queen of the Night. And since I'm finishing my 2 pages a day on the parano

Irritated

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I am irritated with Netflix. Out of the top 15 movies in my queue, only 3 are available now. Granted, six haven't released yet, but the rest all have waits, including TAKEN, which released, what, 2 months ago? I'm FINALLY getting SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, which released March 31. Yesterday I drove down to Blockbuster to get FRIDAY THE 13TH because I didn't want to wait "a very long wait." I wanted my Padalecki NOW.

The dh said it's because we haven't been members lo

A Few of My Favorite Things--Summer Edition

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Yesterday was an incredibly productive day. I am ALMOST done with my Texas revisions---about 15 more pages. I met my writing goal for the paranormal, cleaned the rooms I was supposed to clean, went for a walk, made dinner and dessert from SCRATCH, and read 60 pages of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Also watched SLITHER on DVD and one episode of COMANCHE MOON, set 25 years after my historical, but hey.

Today does not look as promising. The ds worked until 3:30

Goals for First Real Week of Summer Vacation

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1) revisions on DLB (looks like just the first couple of chapters)
2) finish paranormal
3) finish revisions on Texas
4) breakfast w/Mom
5) Get Father’s Day presents and birthday present for dh—only know what to get my dad.
6) blog at WNP and The Romance Studio
7) keep up house
8) exercise daily
9) nap daily
10) finish watching Samantha Who, 30 Rock and Comanche Moon
11) hit library
12) finish reading Visions in White and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

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Behind Already?

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So, the bad thing about having your house cleaned is that you see the things they missed. So I'm attempting to remedy that this week, one room a day. Except I'm already behind.

See, I am making writing the priority. I'm meeting those goals first, new pages on the paranormal and revised pages on the historical (yes, still. It keeps getting pushed aside.) Only then am I working on the house. Yesterday I had errands to run--library, post office, HEB. Then the boy