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“I love deadlines…

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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. – Douglas Adams

Set a deadline… and I’m bound to stress about it. I’m already two days behind in this week’s mini-nano and stress is staring me right in the eyes. So how do I deal with that? Well, let me tell you… (you didn’t think I was going to just let you guess, did you?)

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Let’s start the Adventure…

rocksMy finger hit the period, setting a finality to things that I’d assumed were only possible to others. I had done it. I finished a full-length book… a novel. Where had this come from? This… beast of 68 thousand words? I wasn’t a writer. Or, at least I had convinced myself, not an ‘official’ one, yet… even though I had 3 published short stories on Amazon already.

I have always loved the written word, an avid reader delving into college-level books in 5th grade. While drawn to the scifi/fantasy genres, I read EVERYTHING… mysteries, biographies, heavy science, romance, westerns… all of it.

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