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Actually my intials is ADS. I have always been glad that my midle intial was not another "S". Thanks guys. February 21, 2009 47 pages, 2.2 pages a day average with 11,749 and 558 words a day.
The word of the week is "Gregarious" friendly, very friendly and sociable. Derivation "flock"
Nice to see so many gregarious people visiting me.
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My college English Professor always told me I was the most gregarious student she knew...I remember running home and looking up gregarious in the dictionary…relieved that it was not an insult :]
A girl once told me that I was an egnigma: "Anything that puzzles or baffles. [Gr. to speak in riddles:] What can one say in reply to that?Stats: 54 pages, 13,500 words, 2.16 pages and 540 words per day average. Submitted my immigration article & an article on "The Promise of Critiques". That article is at http://positivepr.livejournal.com
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Final February stats: 59 pages, 14,740 words. That is my highest ever monthly total since I kept a record of that stat in 2005!I am critiquing 3 stories from my new online critique group. Also amazing is that myspace blog just hit the 3,000th hit. Unfortunately, with March and sunshine I suspect my other work will now pull me away from the keyboard.
Weekly quote: Man is not content merely to "face reality" as most other life forms are. Man makes reality face him.
A.d. wrote: "Actually my intials is ADS. I have always been glad that my midle intial was not another "S". Thanks guys. February 21, 2009 47 pages, 2.2 pages a day average with 11,749 and 558 words a day.
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LOL that would've been just mean on your parents part. Although my initials are PAM. And my dad's are JAM. Which is funny. He wanted to have my little brother be ZAM, but Mom wanted to name him after her father, so he became ZGM.
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Well my sister was GAS and it became GAG and we call our brother "BS", which is fitting. Ok, new month. Suppose to make a target? let's say; 30 pages and 7,500 words. Not real with the spring sun peeking out and my novel almost done, that I would find enough time and material to keep up the pace of last month.
Off to a good start: March 2, 2009 8 pages and 1.996 words. Really got into a big shoot out scene for Episode IV. Word of the week: "Impetus": Driving force or motive. [in- upon + peire to seek:] "What is the impetus which causes us to write is a mystery."
March 4th, 2009 10 pages, 2,502 words. 2.5 pages a day and 625.5 words a day! Sent out 3 critiques this week and finished my research of ports in the US which enables me to finish my 4 part article, one part already submitted. If you like funny, see my article "Why do I write SF?" at www.soulcast.com/Scribbles This is the site where I write whimsical pieces for fun.
March 8th, 2009 22 pages, 5,500 words. That is 2.75 pages a day and 687.5 words a day average. 2/3's the way to my target. I just finished my rough draft of my SF novel, "The First Phylum". I actually got emotional about my own ending. It is about 50,000 words. I also finished Episode IV. "Sweet Dreams" of The adventures of Captain Adam Smith" series. Now I have editing and proofreading to do. Two activities which afford no pages or words, and yet neccessary.
Since someone decided to switch me from the "S" to the "A" section, I lost my following. March 12, 2009 and I have 24 pages and 6,000 words so far. Average is 2 pages a day and 500 words.I also started my first "Romance" genre story called: "Love for Ransom". I also posted a list of 27 writing contests and awards at: http://positivepr.livejournal.com
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Great work :]
Oh and do your Twitter?
Yes I do twitter; I am "Homeuniverse". March 14, 2009 30 pages, 7,500 words. For average of 2.1 pages a day and 535.7 words a day. Oh, I made my target and I am half way through the month!? oops. Found a neat quote on Writer's Nook website: "In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to lead; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish." S. I. Hayakawa
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You now have a new Twitter follower ... me :]
My Twitter addy is
http://twitter.com/Dee_Marie_SOA
Statistics 34 pages 8,500 words.And yes I am following your twitter as well now. I was surprised how some people joined my twitter due to an interest in genealogy which is just one of the areas which I write about. I am also working on a series of Editing and writing bulletins. They should be unique.
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I love Twitter :]
I LOL when you talked about your puppy and his sir assualt system on twitter.
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Statistics 36 pages, 9,000 words. My cat boots is 13 years old and she is featured as the editor on my family newsletter; Alkali Flats Gazette. She now sits and waits for me to stop writing so that I will play with her. Soon it will be warm out, and she won't want to be inside much.
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Do you have a picture or Boots?
Total for March is 41 pages, 10,250 words. Edited/proofread = 62 pages. I had 469 views of various blogs and sites and made 40 posts. I have already passed last year's total in pages written. I do have a picture of Boots, but not sure how to upload it to this site? I will place a picture on my flickr.com site and then place the link to it.
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I look forward to your posting a link to Boots.
April 2nd, 2009 Stats: 5 pages and 1,250 words. I started a new short story called, "When the World Changed". I am also ready to submit my 3rd part on immigration and received an order for my 2 volume set on "I don't know you from Adam"; A history of the Adam Smith family. Wooo hoo!
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April 5, 2009 8 pages amd 2,000 words written with 51 pages edited /proofread.
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Hey A.D! Keep writing! You're doing really good!
Here's some brownies!
Here's some brownies!
Just got back from Norwescon. A SF convention in Seattle Washington. Been off the mark because of it. At 13 pages (April 13, 2009) 3,250 words. Got some great ideas and rubbed elbows with editors and authors etc. Good leads on markets and handed out some cards of my own. Thanks for the brownies. I can smell them?
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*grabs a brownie and dances back to cubical, and gets busy writing*
April 17, 2009 24 pages; 6,000 words. Thanks, good to be back. I got some ideas about stories and when you find yourself escourted down an elevator of the Double tree by two imperial storm troopers, you feel inspired to re-dedicate to writing. Eat your heart out Darth!This week's word is Cabal: Secret plotting or scheming.
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April 20, 2009 Pages: 28 7,000 words. I also finally got a photo downloaded concerning Boots my cat and the editor of Alkali Flats gazette. You can see her at: http://positiveness.deviantart.com as well as a few cover art for my past books.I think I got too much sun today. If that is possible.
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Hey I just read the issues you went through with AEG. That really sucks that people can be so underhanded, sigh.
Great word count :]
Yeah, the worse is the fact you think briefly that you are heading in one direction, and discover it was naught. Anyway, April 22nd: 33 pages, 8,250 words. The question of the day: Are you an Organic Writer?
See my two articles: "Publishing during tough times" and "Organic Writers and the new buzz words in fiction." http://positivepr.livejournal.com
April 26, 2009 39 pages 9,750 words; 90 pages edited and proof read. I noticed I am 2 pages from last month's total. Didn't think I would of done so well, but freezing 30 mile an hour winds have battered for days and I did not get as much done outside as I had thought. I see Dee was born in Seattle? Didn't know what your character's name was, so didn't click the friend button.
April 30th. End of the month and it has been a good month. I wrote 47 pages; 11,750 words for the 2nd highest production for 2009. I also went through 99 pages for proof reading and editing.Qoute of the week: "No one can make you feel inferior without your permission." - Eleanor Roosevelt.
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The answer is to my friend question is: Merlin
I like your quote of the day :)
Love Seattle. It will always be my "home port" even through I am now living on the "right coast" instead of the "left" :]
The word of the week: Specious: adj. 1) Apparently good or right, but actually not so; plausible; specious reasoning. 2) Pleasing or attractive in appearance, but deceptive. 3) Beguiling, but lacking in sincerity. [L. specious fair:] Seeming to be good, sound correct, logical etc, without really being so. 5 pages, 1,250 words by May 3, 2009. Good start.
HI AD, I like your word of the day. I've never heard of it before. Your word counts are outstanding too.I just read how you were glad to not have that last S in your initials. I relate to that!
My middle name is an S. (given to all first daughters in the line since... forever) and my last is Swore. So my daughter was born and of course she had so be a something S. Swore. I really liked the name Alexis, so we could call her Lexi for short, but just as we were about to write it on the birth certificate, I realized what the initials would be.
needless to say I didn't name her Alexis.
have a happy writing day!
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I suspect that like writers, Moms and Dads should proofread names before their final drafts. May 6, 2009 7 pages; 1,750 words. Editing & Proof read: 18 pages so far. Rain for the last few days has assisted my production.
May 9, 2009 11 pages. 2,250 words. I am trying to edit and proof read a short story called "When the Earth changed". It's about the magnetic poles changing and the damage it causes. I am entering to the Spocon SF convention in Spokane, WA.
Well it's May 12, 2009. Got back from Seattle yesterday. Only on 13 pages, 3,250 words. Word of the week is: Peremptory: adj. 1) Not admitting of appeal; decisive; absolute. 2) Positive in opinion, etc. ; imperious. 3) Intolerant of opposition; dictatorial. [L> per- entirely + emere to take:] SOS 255 Dictatorial; intolerant of contradiction or refusal.
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