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I’ve done what feels like a tremendous amount of writing over the last several days. Words are flowing –  good words.  Imaginative words.

True words.

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I’ve also been cranky, and, with the full moon, not sleeping nights.  That’s great for long, uninterrupted stretches of writing time –  but it can tend to affect my moods in a less-than-lovely way….

I’m trying to live in the flow, too, but, sometimes, I’m finding that flow choked and hopelessly clogged……

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The writing though – That has been good, and abundant!

Round of Words 80 Goals – Round 1, 2012:

 I will submit at least one essay or photo essay apiece to Tiny Buddha and Sunday Surf.

• This goal has been attained!  I emailed my Tiny Buddha submission at about 1am, March 10 – and then again about two hours later, because, a bit embarrassingly, I typed the address in incorrectly.  Oops, and hooray!
• I had quite a bit of resistance and discomfort in doing these submissions.  I’m letting myself absorb that while gently probing the whys and wherefores.
• I think I may have built them up as “big and scary” in my own mind.
• I might try to experiment with more guest posts and similar submissions during Round 2.

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I will complete the rough draft of my unfinished NaNoWriMo novel, Chameleon’s Dish.

• I have written 12,437 words  of Chapter Twenty – Two, “The Play’s the Thing“.
• A few glimmers of hope are beginning to shine through the impossibility of the situation.
• Of course, there are also new complications and the threat of more looming overhead…can’t just have them cruising into the resolution without breaking a sweat, now, can we?
• I do feel, at once, a desire to delve deeper and a pressure to rush forward and tighten up……and get done.  I am balancing between the two, at the moment.

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I will submit at least four pieces, queries, or proposals to for-pay markets.

• I submitted “Twice Coupled” a piece of flash erotica, to Clean Sheets.  
• This time, it took me a few days to get a form rejection letter.
• I’ve bumped into a treasure trove of other markets to try, and will be looking into those as time permits, this week.
• I am also dipping my foot into the waters of Morgan Dragonwillow’s writing contest.  She is putting together an anthology, and I would like to submit something for consideration.
• I couldn’t manage to get my first piece completed in the 24 hour timeframe (That seems short, for me), but I am liking the direction it is taking, so I am going to complete it and submit it elsewhere.
• With all the contests and challenges I have done in the last two weeks, I feel a little braver about this idea of submitting…….
• I hope to continue broadening my submission field throughout Round 2 and beyond!
• I am also counting my Tiny Buddha essay as a submission,  since, if accepted, it will reach a wider audience than I have up to this point, and I think that’s valuable enough to count toward my goal.
• So that is three out of four submissions made, thus far.

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I will update, keep current on a weekly basis, and add writing samples to my Facebook Writer Page, and I will  update, edit, and post to both of my regular blogs on at least a weekly basis.

• I have added links, samples, comments, and statuses to my Writer Page daily.
• I have not added any posts to The Unfettered Life since my last update.
• At the moment, I cannot respond to comments on that blog –  hoping to figure out why after this round ends…..
• I am planning an “answer the comments” blogpost, so that I can answer.  I don’t like ignoring people who took the time to post a comment.
• I have posted twice to this blog since my last update:
• I posted a book review for don’t think of an elephant,  from the Bookmark Break Challenge.
• I posted my Second Challenge  for the Platform Building Campaign.  It was a challenge, for sure, but also a great deal of fun!
• I have also linked the above post to Shah Wharton‘s Weekend Creation Blog Hop.

I will write at least one book review,  and a rough draft of a letter to my father-in-law.

• I have now written two book reviews.
• I’ve been considering the approach I’ll use for the letter, and have a rough sense of it.
• I feel I will be ready to begin ordering my points and organizing thoughts around them, soon.
• I expect to have a completed rough draft fairly soon after I begin –  this won’t be a censored or necessarily civil draft; but rather a chance to pour out what feels true and vital to communicate.

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I will input one of my writing notebooks into Penzu, and clip all materials I would like to pursue further.

• I have input 92 of 141 pages from my December 1999 Writing Practice Notebook.
• I will not drop the clipping goal, for now, because I seem to be moving fairly quickly through the pages.
• I will, however, likely move the project to the back burner once all pages have been transcribed, so that I can focus on finishing the higher-intensity goals still remaining.

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Today, we all went out on our first family outing/adventure since Jim’s accident on February 19th.  We attended Raptor-Fest 2012, a live raptor show held at a horse farm, and stopped at my brother’s for a visit……I am sure we all needed that, since we were starting to get on each others’ nerves.

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I will wrap up by saying that I wrote, and lived, as much wit h the flow as I was able.

There were and are still some dammed up places where the flow is obstructed, but the fresh energy will help to clear those places.

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I am gearing up and settling in for the final ten-day push, knowing I have come a very long way, and that I still have a distance left to travel.

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I remind myself that it is as much about the journey as the destination, and so I pause now and then, to enjoy the view, to be awed by wild things, to  laugh and learn and play, and to live…….

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Are you aimed directly at the endpoint,  or are you still meandering the little cow trails and rabbit runs of the terrain….?

Set your sights on the adventures of other ROWers here….. 

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