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So, how’s that novel coming along?

Count that among the questions a writer least wants to hear. Even my computer hates this book.

Typed up the handwritten draft of my book. I now have 40,000 words of a novel-like substance: http://ping.fm/CcJJO

So I’ve been up since 6am, working on the mess-in-progress. I realized it was quitting time when this rolled out of my pen:

Maureen might consider the library a vital organ of the community, but to most people it was a mere appendix.

–SW, first draft of Lakeshore Christmas

(Ha ha – and they say writing is hard. This stuff just rolls out of me. No problem.)