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Backed Against The Challenge Wall

April 24, 2018 5 Comments Written by dwsmith

13 Stories to Go in Seven Days… No story tonight because, to be honest, there was just too much to do. Too many letters to send, too much work on other stuff as well. And I even packed a few more boxes. So going to focus on stories for the next week. I still think […]

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Story Seventeen

April 23, 2018 9 Comments Written by dwsmith

Rested This Afternoon So the Story Came Easy… Go figure, I took a nap and then watched some television and just rested, so when I did go to doing email and workshop stuff and writing, it all went easier. Wow, shocker. (grin) The Day Started off up real, real early at a little after 9 […]

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A Planned Miss

April 22, 2018 3 Comments Written by dwsmith

I Has Been Hoping… I had on my schedule a planned miss tonight, knowing there would be too much to do and I would be too tired since the Fantasy workshop ended today here at the coast. But since I have had two unplanned misses, I had been hoping to actually be able to do […]

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A Lot of Paint and a Story

April 21, 2018 3 Comments Written by dwsmith

Up Way Early… I got up early for me, like at 9 a.m., to go out where our two south stores are and help the landlord of the complex there do some painting. We are taking another building there in the complex for an apartment for me and Kris when we come back up to […]

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Digging the Hole Deeper

April 20, 2018 8 Comments Written by dwsmith

Just Decided to Take the Night Off… I decided that because I am getting up silly early tomorrow morning to help with some stuff on this move we are doing, (in essence, help get a place ready to move stuff into from here) I would take the night off. And get a full night’s sleep […]

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Had To Happen

April 19, 2018 2 Comments Written by dwsmith

I Committed Novel… I am still counting it as a short story, and will put it in the final book for this challenge if I make it to the end. But in my mind I have no doubt this does not wrap as a short story. First off, it is paced wrong. Paced like a […]

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Story Fourteen and Cats

April 17, 2018 Leave a Comment Written by dwsmith

Another Fun Day… I didn’t get much packing in today because of meetings and the workshop going on here and so on. But I did spend a bunch of time clearing out a ton of things that could be tossed away. It was garbage day and recycling day and I found a bunch of stuff. […]

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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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