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Ali: No breaks in this week’s chain, I am pleased to report. Also, I made cookies and went on a seven mile hike over the weekend. As of yesterday, I’m only two miles away from hitting my work out goal for the week (a seven mile hike helps a lot). Work in progress for this…
Read more Tournaments, Cross Dressing Princes, and Mini Operas: A Tuesday Post of Accountability
Ali: Today’s our first joint accountability post. I’ve been doing well with my calendar chain strategy. One week of X after X on my calendar and no gaps. When I started, I was nervous. I’ve been on a long slacker stint and I was going to have to get back into a groove that I’d been…
Read more Let the Chain Be Unbroken: A Tuesday Post of Accountability
Hello Tuesday. Time to be held accountable! Last week and the week before I lamented my lack of progress. This week I’ve figured out what the problem was, and I think I’m kind-of recovering. It took agent Rachelle Gardner’s post on money and writing to talk me down from the thought process that was freezing…
Read more What Was Blocking Me: A Tuesday Post of Accountability
All right, all right, all right, all right. I do this each week to be held accountable in the hope that when I write a post every Tuesday I can impress all y’all with my impressiveness. Alas, this is Week Two of Not Much Done At All. I can still blame baseball because it’s still…
Read more Sloooowww Progress: A Tuesday Post of Accountability
Grr. Tuesday snuck up on me this week. Time to be held accountable. 1. I showed up to be critiqued at my writer’s group on Sunday. Took lots of notes on a short story that I’m going to send to Hayden’s Ferry Review for their “In the Dark” themed issue. (Ali posted it as a…
Read more Augh! Tuesday Again!: A Tuesday Post of Accountability
Hello Tuesday and writer-friends! Time to be held accountable for our writing actions…or lack thereof. Unfortunately, I fall into that “Lack Thereof” category this week. And I blame baseball. Not the major league kinda baseball – the way-more-intense world of Babe Ruth League baseball for children 9-10 years old. The world of baseball that my…
Read more Blame it on the Baseball: A Tuesday Post of Accountability
Hello writer-friends. It’s Tuesday, which means that it’s time to be accountable…which I wasn’t last Tuesday. Quick reason for no posting last Tuesday: My grandmother died on March 31. It was rather an emotional week that manifested some strange things. The first of which – Last Monday (the Monday after her death) I decided to go…
It’s Tuesday again folks. And every Tuesday you will be subjected to regaled by the writing progress I have made over the last week. But! I insist that I not be the only one exposing myself sounding off. Let your comments reflect what kind of suffering butt-kicking you have done too!And there’s one big thing…
Welcome to Tuesday! And every Tuesday you will be subjected to regaled by the writing progress I have made over the last week. But! I insist that I not be the only one exposing myself sounding off. Let your comments reflect what kind of suffering butt-kicking you have done too! Stuff I’ve done this week:…
Read more Marathons, Sheep, and Conclusions: A Tuesday Post of Accountability!
Welcome to Tuesday! And every Tuesday you will be subjected to regaled by the writing progress I have made over the last week. But! I insist that I not be the only one exposing myself sounding off. Let your comments reflect what kind of suffering butt-kicking you have done too! 1. Um, yeah. NaNoWriMo is…
Read more Your Slip is Showing: A Tuesday Post of Accountability!
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