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The first sentence I wrote today, and a gratuitous slam against Ron Sexsmith

Chris Keating looked around at the assembled Kemonomimi and debated the wisdom of telling “Victor Hansen” that he was full of crap.Words today: 2,449Total words: 37,745Percent complete: 31.5 A good day today. One of the scenes that went missing mysteriously was my focus, and it turned out much better than I think it was the …

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The first sentence I wrote today, and a gratuitous slam against Ron Sexsmith

Chris Keating looked around at the assembled Kemonomimi and debated the wisdom of telling “Victor Hansen” that he was full of crap.Words today: 2,449Total words: 37,745Percent complete: 31.5 A good day today. One of the scenes that went missing mysteriously was my focus, and it turned out much better than I think it was the …

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The first sentence I wrote today…and a horrible discovery

I’ve fallen down on the “first sentence I wrote today” posts, I admit, but since I need to tuck away a cool 2,000-plus words every day this month to meet my deadline, I think I’d better resume them. So here’s today’s: “Who are you?” Emily click-spoke.Out of context, it sounds like she was sticking a …

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The first sentence I wrote today…and a horrible discovery

I’ve fallen down on the “first sentence I wrote today” posts, I admit, but since I need to tuck away a cool 2,000-plus words every day this month to meet my deadline, I think I’d better resume them. So here’s today’s: “Who are you?” Emily click-spoke.Out of context, it sounds like she was sticking a …

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Cover of my Janis Joplin book

As I noted in the previous post, my children’s biography of Janis Joplin, Take Another Little Piece of My Heart, will be out from Enslow Publishers as part of their American Rebels series sometime this year (currently, Amazon says May). I just discovered the cover art has now been posted on Amazon, and here it …

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Cover of my Janis Joplin book

As I noted in the previous post, my children’s biography of Janis Joplin, Take Another Little Piece of My Heart, will be out from Enslow Publishers as part of their American Rebels series sometime this year (currently, Amazon says May). I just discovered the cover art has now been posted on Amazon, and here it …

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The first sentence I wrote today…

I’ve been a bit slack on these entries, but I have a good excuse: this is opening week for Persephone Theatre’s Beauty and the Beast, so my focus has been pretty much entirely on the show. We had our first show in front of an audience Tuesday (an invited dress rehearsal), then previews Wednesday and …

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The first sentence I wrote today…

I’ve been a bit slack on these entries, but I have a good excuse: this is opening week for Persephone Theatre’s Beauty and the Beast, so my focus has been pretty much entirely on the show. We had our first show in front of an audience Tuesday (an invited dress rehearsal), then previews Wednesday and …

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The first sentence I wrote today

She and her mother were in the second load to be ferried to the shuttle.Words today: 1,406Total thus far: 18,532Percentage completed: 15.4

The first sentence I wrote today

She and her mother were in the second load to be ferried to the shuttle.Words today: 1,406Total thus far: 18,532Percentage completed: 15.4

The first sentence I wrote today (well, technically, yesterday, since I’m posting this after midnight, so sue me)

With Hansen’s image gone from the vidscreen, Karl Rasmusson turned to the man to whom command of the Holy Warriors had defaulted.Words today: 992Total thus far: 17,126Percentage completed: 14.3 Not too great a total today, either. I expect more tomorrow, though, since I don’t have to be at rehearsal until noon.

The first sentence I wrote today

But there were precautions they could take against that possibility. Words today: 504Total thus far: 16,134Percentage completed: 13.4 An embarrassingly small total today–I got a late start. I need to pull up my socks!