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Thirteen and Back On Pace

April 16, 2018 2 Comments Written by dwsmith

A Really Fun Day… I did my first two webinars today, about three hours total between them. I had fun and I hope they were interesting for others listening in and asking questions. One was on selling short fiction and the other on writing space opera. The Day Got up around nine-thirty because I had […]

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Skip Second Day… Not Worried

April 15, 2018 Leave a Comment Written by dwsmith

Another Long and Fun Day… I didn’t even think about moving over to the writing computer to write tonight. Started off this morning with movers helping me move stuff from first the offices, then this house, then from the bookstore. A massive move-around that needed to be done to stage the next step in this […]

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Decided To Skip Tonight

April 14, 2018 Leave a Comment Written by dwsmith

Four Hours of Sleep and a Fun Day… I got all the way through the day, sat down at my writing computer around 2.a.m. and just laughed. Not that I most likely could have done a story. I am sure I could have. But it was time to get sane and get some rest. Had […]

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An Even Dozen

April 13, 2018 10 Comments Written by dwsmith

Stunned Looking Back At This Week… I can say for certain that these twelve short stories would not exist without this challenge. Not a chance on the planet. And so far, Kris has said all of the first eleven work and are good, which surprises writer-me even more. Not supposed to happen that way in […]

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Eleven and Going Strong

April 12, 2018 1 Comment Written by dwsmith

I Am Going To Be Doing Packing Soon… I just need to have a day when I am not going from morning until night at work. But had fun today setting up webinar settings and making sure everything would work on my end. I think it’s going to be really cool. We shall see on […]

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Story Ten Done… Ten Days

April 11, 2018 10 Comments Written by dwsmith

Still Going… Today ended up just about as busy as yesterday, but I managed to write only a 1,500 word story instead of a 4,400 word story like yesterday. That is going to help me get to bed a little earlier and get a good night’s sleep. Yay! And Kris was stunned that she actually […]

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Writing Can Be Stupid

April 10, 2018 2 Comments Written by dwsmith

Story Nine Done, But What A Pain… Today, without a doubt, might have been the busiest day I have had in a long, long time. And I expected it to be honest. After tomorrow, things calm down amazingly for me and I can actually get to more packing. But today was nonstop from the time […]

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Eight In Eight Days

April 9, 2018 Leave a Comment Written by dwsmith

Still Going Along Strong… The next few days with all the workshop stuff will be an interesting challenge, then after that things smooth out and I will have time to get to not only more writing, but packing. Not much of that the last few days, other than I have managed to get stuff out […]

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Story Seven and Moving

April 8, 2018 3 Comments Written by dwsmith

One Week, Seven Stories… Pretty happy to have gotten through the first hard area of this challenge. Between story #4 and #7 it feels like I had reached the first third of a novel. You know, everything is shit, what’s the point in going forward place we all hit. Difference in a professional writer and […]

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Nifty Cover

April 7, 2018 9 Comments Written by dwsmith

The Cover for the Book About This Challenge. Allyson did it without me asking her. Thanks, Allyson. I love it. I like being able to visualize a cover of a book I am working on. So far this book is only six chapters of thirty long, and six stories of the thirty. But I’m off […]

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