Christmas Letter 2008

Lio by Mark Tatulli


( Our Christmas letter this year. If we have your address, you're probably getting one of these. )

Writing Log - Nope, still not done with The Old Woman By The Sea.

"The Old Woman By The Sea" Writing Log

2,111 / 4,000 (52.8%)

New words: 351
Total words: 2,111
Overused word: necklace
Gratuitous word: glinting
Type of scene: Transitional.
Challenge(s): Um, finding time to write?
Which line is it anyways?Then she picked up her memory of a child's meal at a Chinese restaurant and took it to sell it for money to buy supplies.
Notes: Am very irritated with myself about the slow pace I'm getting things done at.
Other writingy stuff:
* Read Writer's Digest, WritersWeekly newsletters.
* Updated Spec the Halls website, sent out newsletter and posted it to lj & website.
* Cleaned expired contests & anthologies out of market listing and uploaded new version to website.

Aswiebe's Market List Update

Editor's Note
With Christmas season in full swing (and how did it get here so fast?), it feels a little like my writing time is running away from me--or turning into Christmas card-addressing time instead. It's easy to get busy and let writing slip, whether it's during the holiday season or any other time of the year when life gets busy. I have to remind myself that when life gets busy, it's time to take a step back, look over everything, and figure out what's important, urgent, or both. Remembering that is the hard part!
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Details of the Day - Breakfast FAIL.

• 12:31 + Good thing about no work today - having breakfast of bacon and eggs at 11:30 AM.
• 13:03 - Spilling that lovely brunch all over the stairs before being able to take a bite = not so good.

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