"There Goes the Top of My Head" - a paraphrase of Emily Dickinson’s criteria for recognizing a true poem. Although I've left older posts here about all sorts of topic, for the foreseeable future, this will be my repository for anything literary: book reviews / reactions, writing journal, and any topics related to editing or writing poetry or fiction.
Congratulations! Now go take a month off, please -- you deserve a break. (By the way, last night Laura showed me a word counter in the NaNoWriMo tradition that Amanda had passed along, and it offered up pictures of kittens for every 100 words written. I pounded out the beginning of a quick little tale to get to the kitty, and I was so inspired by it that I had Laura cut and paste the same 100 words again to see the next cute little fuzzball. It didn't feel like cheating as long as I kept staring at the kitty.)
Thanks, Todd. I got your email too. Much appreciated. I won't be taking the month off. Actually I plan to write through this weekend to tack an ending on the novel. Then I've got the Brick Road Poetry Contest to judge. I don't think the kitty pics would motivate me. Now if it coughed up pics of garden spiders that would be a whole 'nother story.
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Congratulations! Now go take a month off, please -- you deserve a break. (By the way, last night Laura showed me a word counter in the NaNoWriMo tradition that Amanda had passed along, and it offered up pictures of kittens for every 100 words written. I pounded out the beginning of a quick little tale to get to the kitty, and I was so inspired by it that I had Laura cut and paste the same 100 words again to see the next cute little fuzzball. It didn't feel like cheating as long as I kept staring at the kitty.)
Thanks, Todd. I got your email too. Much appreciated. I won't be taking the month off. Actually I plan to write through this weekend to tack an ending on the novel. Then I've got the Brick Road Poetry Contest to judge. I don't think the kitty pics would motivate me. Now if it coughed up pics of garden spiders that would be a whole 'nother story.
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