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March 11, 2010
my favorite quote about revising your writing
(I've posted this before but it bears repeating.)
On good days, everything goes right and 1 have the whole script executed from start to finish within four or five hours. On bad days 1 write the whole script in four or five hours, realise that it's useless, tear it up and start again. I repeat this process four or five times until I'm reduced to a blubbering wreck that just slumps in the armchair and whimpers about how it has no talent whatsoever and will never write again. Next day I'll get...
March 10, 2010
The damage vacation did to my Work in Progress
…with pen, ink, scissors, paste, a decanter of sherry, and a vast reluctance, Mr Earbrass begins to revise [his novel:]. This means, first, transposing passages, or reversing the order of their paragraphs, or crumpling them up furiously and throwing them in the waste-basket. After that there is rewriting. This is worse than merely writing, because not only does he have to think up new things just the same, but at the same time try not to remember the old ones.
-Edward Gorey
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March 9, 2010
I'm totally the poster child for month long writing challenges right now
I totally originally wrote that title as "postal child" which you may find to be more appropriate.
So, as you know, back in November, I took on National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo as the cool people call it. I finished and won and all that good stuff.
Now it is March. March, you will be unsurprised to learn, is National Novel Editing Month which people call NaNoEdMo. Though much less formal than NaNoWriMo, the goal of NaNoEdMo is to do 50 hours of editing in the month of March.
I am not ...
stealing from myself
I just literally took a few sentences from my one unpublished novel and put it in my other unpublished novel. It's a description of something.
Whichever one gets published first can have it. 
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March 3, 2010
I feel like the plane that brought us back from vacation. . .
. . . dropped me into the car that is my life that has been speeding out of control without me to steer it. Now I'm just trying to catch my breath long enough to get the damn thing back into my lane so I don't crash.
On the plus side, made a dent in the 400 emails I got while I was gone tonight. (That's *with* working over vacation and checking emails!!) On the minus side, no dent made in the 41 items I have to ship out for eBay and the way I "dealt with" most of those emails was to mark them ...
February 27, 2010
Hillary's Weekly Blog Digest for 2010-02-27
The Whine Seller: USPS's green fail: making trash & wasting paper in the name of the environment http://bit.ly/c0YTHf #
The Whine Seller: How to read Amazon's Kindle Books without owning a Kindle http://bit.ly/dl3rZz #
Cult of Cummings: Jim Cummings News: Week in Review (2010-02-26) http://bit.ly/dASeOK #
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February 20, 2010
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February 17, 2010
The Love of Three Oranges premieres in Romania [UPDATED]
I am pleased to announce that The Love of Three Oranges has another country to add to its resume as the play premieres in Romania next week.
There will be two performances, February 26th, 2010 and March 3rd, 2010.
The play will be performed by a group of volunteers doing EVS (European Voluntary Service) in Romania working in a local high school in Santana/Arad. There are members in the group coming from Germany, Iceland and Latvia and the theatre club is for students aged 14-19. They are...
The Love of Three Oranges premieres in Romania on February 26th, 2010
I am pleased to announce that The Love of Three Oranges has another country to add to its resume as the play premieres in Romania next week.
There will be two performances, February 26th, 2010 and March 3rd, 2010.
The play will be performed by a group of volunteers doing EVS (European Voluntary Service) in Romania working in a local high school in Santana/Arad. There are members in the group coming from Germany, Iceland and Latvia and the theatre club is for students aged 14-19. They are...
