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Expat Wannabe Writer.
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Dragging Feet.
Yet Another Excuse. So anyway, before I get on with the meat of today’s update, I’ll ply you with yet another excuse for my tardiness in posting. I’m ahead of schedule –just! – with my revisions, but that’s of not… Read More ›
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Slow Going Revision.
Fast Means Slow. First let me apologize for being super late yet again. Last week I had the beginning of a four-day fast planned and I wanted to delay the post so I could write about how that was going…. Read More ›
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First Steps in the Revising The Old Man.
Making a Start. So, I’m finally getting around to starting the first revision of the book, and my first impression is this is going to be harder than I thought Harder Work. Why? First up, there are a number of things… Read More ›
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Back to the Grindstone!
Where Have I Been? I can’t believe it’s been since early May since I posted! Well at least it’s not August just yet! So what have I been up to that’s made me neglect my life’s work? For a start,… Read More ›
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Keeping Busy
School. My grades from school officially posted yesterday. Five As and a B, so not bad. There’s too much work to do around here to be going back to school in the fall, so it’ll be sometime next year before… Read More ›
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School’s Out For Summer!
Construction Work. Now that I’ve taken my History final this morning, you’d think my summer would be completely free. No so. I have a construction job that needs to be completed within the next three weeks, which will keep me… Read More ›
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Staying Motivated
Time. There never seems to be enough of it. Yesterday was taken up almost entirely with the last of this semester’s school workload, feeding the brood, and getting them to and from Girl Scouts. This is one of the great… Read More ›
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Thoughts on Outlining
Starting out on my current project, I’d laid out what I thought was a fairly helpful outline. It set out the progress of the story in chunks that weren’t even bite-sized, they were more like crumbs. Not even half-way through I… Read More ›
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Six Things to Think About Before Getting a Chromebook
Having now worked with both a laptop and a Chromebook, here are what I think are the six most important differences between them that might affect your choice of what to work with. 1. PRICE For comparison of prices off-the-shelf,… Read More ›
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What’s in a Name?
I spent a good part of yesterday busily beavering away on school work as the semester is grinding to a close. I have one paper written and needing revision, one other needing to be written, and some additional work left… Read More ›
Andrew Wellington 