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[Practical Meerkat] On Craft: The Boss and the Through-Line

Lunacon was a lovely time – slightly weird, since I was day-tripping it, but I came out the other side feeling far more rested than usual, so I’ll call the experiment a success (when you live half an hour drive from the hotel, why not sleep in your own bed at night?).  There were the

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Thinking About Thinking About Doing the Writing (Practical Meerkat revisits)

Reading my old LiveJournal entries (I do that, periodically, to revisit places and emotions) and I can across this entry from 2007, which deserves to be pulled out and set fresh: “Doesn’t matter who you are, or what you’re trying to get done: Ass in Chair is still a valid and effective means to the

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In which I tease you about a book, and tease you with a cover…

So this afternoon I finished the book yet-known as Portals #1.  When by “finished” I mean “I hit the last page of the draft but will have to revise it before it goes to Madame Editrix.”  So finished good enough to collapse for the weekend. *thuds* This book was both really hard to write (oh

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That Was Not The Day You Were Looking For…

So yesterday I set up my to-do list, and I settle in with my cup of coffee #1, and I lift the lid of the trusty workhorse laptop (whose name is Archie to Nero-the-cranky-desktop), and… The screen displayed not the usual “okay boss, hopping to it!” energy, but the unending beachball of doom-about-to-fall. And sure

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Tuesday Like Monday for Purposes of To Do…

Yesterday, despite a bad start, was crazy-productive.  Which meant I fell over with no brain by 7pm, but that was okay.  Now, if I can just repeat that crazy-productive stance for four more days, everything will be copacetic.  I will also be dead, but hey, can’t have everything, right? So.  The state of the to-dos…

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Tweets from the Last Day of Revisions….

The following occurred over a 9 hour span via @LAGilman     Errands run, coffee ingested, back to the WarRoom I go… #cantsleepdeadlineswilleatme #amwriting …and I just realized there’s a short story in the PSI universe that wants to be told, covering off-page adventures during #4. hrmmmm. I will say this: @matrice has the gift

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