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05/20/2005: "The Great and the Not-so-Great..."

...aspects of writing. I'm hyperventilating over this book. It's due. Soon. As usual, I'm not as close to finished as I'd like to be, so while the family's out playing, I'll be working through the week-end. Long days. Pretty much nights too. Same story for next week-end and Memorial Day. Even though I try hard to not let this happen, I always seem to fall behind and there's this crazed, frantic rush the last two weeks of the book. I think my husband has begun to accept it as a way of life (although he doesn't particularly like it) and he just steers clear and takes the girl with him.

The fairly great aspect of writing is that for a bit of time--before the mosquitoes take over the world and it's too stinking hot and muggy outside to think about anything other than how hot and sweaty you are--I can haul my handy dandy laptop outside and work on the top deck which is a bit like a giant treehouse.

Oh, I'm feeling the crack of the deadline whip...off to do pages....

Jen

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