50K or bust!

So, last night, I said that I wasn’t sure where exactly I was going to go with with my next scene. I got in bed, and starting imagining an entire conversation between Dex and Marie. This morning I got up, and wrote it all out before doing anything else at all. That puts me 500 [...]

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2320 for the day.

I ended up writing 2320 words, which brings my total up to 36,138. So that’s over my regular goal of 2000 words a day, but under my goal for this week of writing 2650 words a day to make up for this weekend.
I’m beginning to feel like this story is slightly out of control. I [...]

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Back to regularly scheduled programming…

With all the excitement this weekend, (in addition to going to the protest against prop 8 on Saturday, I spent Sunday eating and cooking and eating some more. Mmm, food coma.) I only managed to write about 750 words. That’s all weekend.
I’m not too pleased about this. Though I’m still on track to hit 60K [...]

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Brain food

I’m writing this while waiting for a batch of biscuits to bake. Mmm, biscuits.
I’m decidedly a California girl, and didn’t really appreciate biscuits until a few months ago, when I made a couple of big cross-country drives in quick succession. And discovered biscuits. And now they’re one of my favorite foods. 
This is the first time, [...]

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Day 2!

I wrote my next (short) scene last night, and it ended… not exactly where I was expecting it to. And in such a way that it kind of brought my main storyline for Dexter to a halt. Thinking about it last night (I was having trouble falling asleep,) I realized that I could fix things [...]

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