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mmerriamI'm starting to feel healthy enough to get back to work. I'm still plugged up and coughing, but I managed to sleep through the night last night. Today I settled in and tried to get my brain back into writer guy mode after two weeks of nearly nothing.
Word count: about -2000.
Yeah, that's right -2000 words.
I was looking over my older stories, ones that have yet to find a publishing home. A couple of them were so bad they shall never see light of day again, but others had a good story wrapped up in the writing I was capable of back them.
I have, reassuringly, grown quite a bit as a writer.
So I re-wrote three stories and tweaked a couple more. One story alone lost 1000 words, dropping it from 7500 to 6500. It is a much better story now, far more likely to find a publishing home. I might start working on the novel again tomorrow.
We have gaming tomorrow, wrapping up the campaign run by my friend S (WINOLJ), and deciding where to go from here. It has been a entertaining a run, and hopefully we can find something else fun to do as a group.
Another nice thing about being less sick is I feel like cooking again. Tonight was gumbo.
Be still my trembling heart.
Now, I love Minnesota. One of the smartest things I ever did was move here.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
careswen and I love this State, and plan to buy a house and stay awhile. But well prepared southern food is in my blood. Gumbo, jambalaya, blackened catfish, fried okra, hush puppies.
Sigh.
In Peace
Michael
Word count: about -2000.
Yeah, that's right -2000 words.
I was looking over my older stories, ones that have yet to find a publishing home. A couple of them were so bad they shall never see light of day again, but others had a good story wrapped up in the writing I was capable of back them.
I have, reassuringly, grown quite a bit as a writer.
So I re-wrote three stories and tweaked a couple more. One story alone lost 1000 words, dropping it from 7500 to 6500. It is a much better story now, far more likely to find a publishing home. I might start working on the novel again tomorrow.
We have gaming tomorrow, wrapping up the campaign run by my friend S (WINOLJ), and deciding where to go from here. It has been a entertaining a run, and hopefully we can find something else fun to do as a group.
Another nice thing about being less sick is I feel like cooking again. Tonight was gumbo.
Be still my trembling heart.
Now, I love Minnesota. One of the smartest things I ever did was move here.
careswen and I love this State, and plan to buy a house and stay awhile. But well prepared southern food is in my blood. Gumbo, jambalaya, blackened catfish, fried okra, hush puppies. Sigh.
In Peace
Michael
