Oh, this feels soooooooo good. Here are the stats. 58 chapters 205,000 words I received the green light midway through April. Finished 27 weeks later. Looking at my time records, it took me a total of 345 hours to finish this draft. And the lion’s share was new stuff. This took less time than it normally
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In July, I blogged some spending 101 for Congress and the President, including contigency planning for alien invasions. I thought I made some good points. However, through the whole spending debate that occured this last spring nobody in the media or elsewhere was able to make clear what is going on with the US government. Nobody except Dave Ramsey. He
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Poetry is a species of literature that struggles to flourish in written and spoken environments. We forward the occasional insightful, funny, or sentimental poem in our emails. Once in a while speakers will quote a few verses. But we don’t share that form of poetry like we do the poetry in songs. Music is the environment
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Had a delightful time delivering “Story Lessons from the Hunger Games” at the annual conference for the Utah chapter of RWA up in Park City. Especially enjoyed delivering a sweet dream telegram involving waxed chests 🙂 Here’s the PDF as promised: Story Lessons from the Hunger Games RWA 2011
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The Best Vocal Show Currently Running We are now two weeks into the third season of NBC’s The Sing-Off, and it’s going to be just as good as last year’s or better. It airs for the next few weeks on Mondays from 7-9 p.m. Mountain. But you can catch the performances on the site http://www.nbc.com/sing-off/ if
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