Archive | April, 2009

29 April 2009 ~ 0 Comments

50,000 words — how did I get here?

Word count: around 1,400 Music: Bellevue Jubilee, their only album Deep Dark South The song Just The Moon will play over the credits of Gordath Wood when it is made into a movie. : -) Do you ever read Salon’s advice column, Ask Cary? It’s a freaking train wreck. I usually ignore Cary’s answers; the [...]

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27 April 2009 ~ 0 Comments

The writing life coffee, friends, writing, rain

WC on Sunday morning: 1,257 WC on Monday night: 1,130  Total so far: 48,640  Music: Christmas Adagios, a collection of beautiful classical pieces, some choral some instrumental. There are two Ave Marias, one by Pavarotti and the other by Leontyne Price. Also Vivaldi’s Winter Largo, which breaks my heart every time I listen to it. [...]

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23 April 2009 ~ 2 Comments

Broke 46,000 words

Words: kind of lost track, but I think about 1,500. I forgot to mark the starting number and there was some infill. Music: Silence is the new ritual. Or maybe it was the whirring of the dryer (my office is in the pantry/laundry room). It’s rhythmic and undemanding.  Yeah, seriously, maybe what this means is [...]

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