Sprinting for the Finish Line

Technically, December just became the most verbose written month of my life. And it’s been here for eight and a half days. I have contributed over 35,000 words (~140 pages) to the novel in the last eight and a half…

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First Snow

Today I was reminded why I came to the East Coast. Sure, I may have written 3 chapters in the last 24 hours and be capping the officially most productive writing period of my entire life (the amount written here…

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Figgy!

Didn’t write a D&C today because the focus was on catching up on chapter 51, left unwritten yesterday because I was hanging out online with the Meppers all night. But it’s done and now I’m very excited that the number…

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Butterfly Wings

It’s been a strange day. Last night proved to be a thoroughly redemptive exercise in basketball, as my streaky shooting caught fire and I played the way I always want to play, ever the more grateful for the opportunity to…

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Mo Mentum

The sample size is only 41 hours, but December’s been awfully good so far. I wrote another 16 pages last night (early this morning), bringing December to a startling 8,149 word count (~32.5 pages) in just two overnight sessions, or…

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Hampered by Illness, Holiday, November Disappoints

After a roaring October that seemed like the most prolific month of my life (though it actually trailed September), November was a struggle that made things close again for meeting my self-imposed December 15th deadline for first-draft completion of American…

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