Letters to Casey

Feb 28 to April 28. Shall I blog every other month, do you think?
Everything’s different. My dashboard’s all funky. I have no idea what’s happened.
My sewing stuff is just nuts. I’m stressed and busy and still loving it. I’ve had to close up shop and go to custom orders only. [...]

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Made In My Image

I know, Wow! a post from me.  Ugh.  It’s just been exotic varieties of awful this fall.  And I’m going to spare you the details of my neuroses and angst over the past few months. 
 You’re welcome.
Anyway, today Kettle gently says: I think that’s why blogging was so good for you.  But then you sort of [...]

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Nano/COD Update: Day 10

No new stats to report.  Someday, maybe I’ll learn how to handle writing and my brain chemistry, but after beating myself up pretty good the other day, I’ve just taken a break. 
I figured out that if I wrote 2K per day from now on I would still make it.  That sort of made me feel [...]

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Sweat 2 Update: Just Around the Corner

Since Tom Hanks has established for us that no one owns the phrase Just Around the Corner.  That’s where Nano is.  Lurking.
I know what I’m going to write for chapter one when I sit down to write it.  I have a good idea about some parts after that, and a vaguer idea of others, and [...]

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Sweat 2 Begins…Somebody Save Me

So today is the first day of Seventy Days of Sweat Round 2.  Seems like that should have a catchy tagline. 
So what am I doing?  Nothing much, besides trying to give Kettle some needed encouragement.  I’m definitely not ready with my ideas and I’m glad I have another 2 weeks before Nano starts to get [...]

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If I Could I Would I Swear

That’s actually an a-ha lyric, to go along with the blog title and tag-line theme.  Actually, I’m not sure it’s true.  Maybe I can, but I just won’t.  I’m just too far down right now, and I can’t generate enough energy to take their stuff on and write it out.  I’ve got too many of my [...]

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In the desert, you can’t remember your name…

I don’t know what that particular lyric has to do with anything.  It’s just what’s running through my head as I sit here and sweat and it continues to be hot and dry and generally nasty. 
 Kettle: You need to update.
Pot: On what?  I haven’t done anything.
Kettle: Dunno, but you need a new post, even it [...]

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You’re Doing Great–Just Don’t Mess Up

When I used to write, before I quit for that spell and then came back to it, I used to write beginnings, endings, and a few key scenes in between.  The rest of that middle was supposed to get filled in, but by the time I’d flesh out introducing the characters, introducing them to each other, [...]

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The Seventy Days Goodie Box

You may remember that a few weeks ago I won the 70 Days drawing for a goodie box from Jo Leigh.  It came yesterday, but I’m just now getting a chance to get pictures uploaded and show it off.
It was a box packed with stuff- books, bath stuff, tea stuff, journal stuff.
There was a mug with a [...]

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WOTM Update and Stuff About This Week

Well, I had been behind the last few days.  Family stuff, busy busy.  And I was going to catch up.  “If I have to stay up all night on Saturday.”
Yeah, I was up all night.  Sick.  [details omitted, you're welcome.]
This morning, once I was able to sit up long enough to consider it, I was [...]

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