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Okay, I have to admit I’ve run dry. Going to the movies to see if I can refill the well. If that doesn’t work, art museums or galleries almost always do. There’s something about painting…. Here are two artists sites if you’re in the same fix. Filling the Dry Well from an artist who worked…
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Been back a couple of days, mostly getting organized again. Have started one of my classes for a certificate in postsecondary reading. Not surprisingly, there’s a lot of reading. Getting my head back into my novel and have a self-imposed deadline of about 6 weeks to finish the first draft. A few links: book/daddy has…
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If Flannery Had A Blog has excerpts from novels, letters, bios, articles, etc.
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Been getting some submissions for Annotation Nation(on hiatus till September) that are either book reviews or life histories. Also saw a question on how to annotate in the discussion forums for College Confidential, so here are some helpful links: Peter Turchi has a list of resources. His own column (scroll down) is excellent. Read Francine Prose’s Reading Like…
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Spent the day on revisions. Revised the look of the blog too. Still playing around with it. Had some great notes on GROWING CHOCOLATE, though it meant temporarily tossing chapter one and starting over. Took some time to rethink how to start it and was then able to use probably 80% of what I’d already written, but…
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Today I begin again. Not sure what happened, but I got off track. The regimen that works best for me is getting up early, working out either on a 3 mile hike in the hills or at the gym, then writing till lunch, running errands, etc. and then reading or doing something else in the…
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Here are some different approaches to time from Zen Habits. Writers have an interesting relationship with time. I’m happiest when it disappears and things are clicking on the page. I already tend to work by the week. Rather than scheduling a certain number of hours to work, I tend to set word or page goals.…
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If you’re not into alphabetizing your books…
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Last night I discovered pig candy. Sweet, salty, a little spicy, and crunchy. Heaven. Here’s the recipe. Your cardiologist would not approve.
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Been busy with volunteer work. Looking forward to getting more involved in a couple of projects in Africa. Discovered that I do better volunteering when it’s ‘hands-on.’ Just started Steve Hely’s How I Became A Famous Novelist and it’s hilarious, especially for writers. If you don’t know him, Hely’s worked on Late Night with David…
Diane Sherlock 
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