On a Clear Path: ROW80 Goals Check-In

Time, time, time, see what’s become of me.  While I looked around.   For my possibilities.  I was so hard to please.  But look around, leaves are brown.  And the sky is a hazy shade of winter.” ~ Simon and Garfunkel “Hazy Shade of Winter”

I’m doing much better halfway into this week after the computer plague that stopped time.  Thank you to everyone who chimed in with similar tales, support for my mental suffering and tech tips.  I’m on a much safer path now.   🙂

ROW80 Goals Progress

Writing/Craft

  • 1,500 words of new fiction a week either on novel WIP or short stories.  875 words so far for novel WIP.  The big squee is that I got 523 of them done in a quick 45 minute burst of writing right after work.  Being a vampire-hours night person, I’m used to doing my writing in the late evening.  My start was hard—like pulling out one word at a time—for the first 10 minutes, but then I locked in and cranked out a prologue. Continue reading
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Embracing Our Guilty Pleasures

We are here on Wild Child Wednesday where the only rule is…ah scrap that.  No rules, just a freedom ride of open topics

Before getting back to my novel word count last night, I felt the urge to make a “guilty pleasure” playlist for my iPod.  It stretched beyond the three artists I was ashamed to admit I liked.  As I moved and shuffled files about, I considered what was spurring the “what would people think if they saw this list” vibes.  Was it the songs themselves or—on a higher level—the artists behind them?  What consists of a guilty pleasure? Continue reading

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