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I keep expecting Phil to nag me to come to bed, but he's not here.

ET, No Phone Home.

• "You own a homechulus," Carl managed to say around the sudden constriction of his throat. "I thought you were against them." #nwm
• "So I do, and so I am. Our clients expect it. It's sadly necessary--like your homechulus horses. You could never afford real ones." #nwm
• Slightly stunned there's a "Garden and Gun" magazine. It's Southern.
• Grr. Phone line is down. Qwest Online wants mysterious "security code" *which they will call me with*. Double-grr.

And...a couple of minutes later--

• Props to Qwest for tracking Twitter and offering tweet tech support!
• Still no phone service, though.
• Extremely surreal tattoo: bit.ly/2JwptC

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Aswiebe's Market List Update 2009-11

http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/markets.html

The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be on 12/15/2009.

Editor's Note
You may recall back in August, right after I had knee surgery, I talked about choosing an anthology and writing a story to submit to it. I was in a fair amount of pain and heavily drugged, and I could only write tiny amounts at a time. My point was that even when you can only do a little bit, it's worth doing instead of giving up. Well, they accepted it! "Missing You in Pieces" will be published in the upcoming Dead Bells anthology.

This month I've been thinking a lot about motivation and production goals when writing. I read an article about setting achievable goals that resonated. Writing is one of those things that there's always more of, and it's easy to feel like the only way to get a break from it is to procrastinate. The article makes the excellent point that instead of a to-do list, perhaps what we need is a done-after list: a set of easily achievable goals after which we are guilt-free done for the day. Step one is figuring out what achievable goals actually are--how long certain tasks take. I've been trying it out. Counter-intuitively, by trying to do less, I'm getting more done. As in all things, YMMV.

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