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What do you do when you need to take your contacts out but your infant wakes up if she doesn't feel the pressure of your hand on her chest? Why put the thickest paper back you own on her chest. Thank Brandon Sanderson and his Way of Kings for saving me last night!
 
^^It's lulu.com/create/books. I'm having trouble with the formatting, though; the file I have is too large [as in centimeters, not length], and I don't know how to change it.
 

Aurora

Sage
^^It's lulu.com/create/books. I'm having trouble with the formatting, though; the file I have is too large [as in centimeters, not length], and I don't know how to change it.

Yikes, I don't know. Right now I'm only doing ebook and moving to audio. Indie books don't sell print in high numbers.
 

Geo

Troubadour
Sometimes is soul crushing to realize that all your hard work means little when the judgment is given by a lazy twit. Just feeling despondent I suppose. Some of the occupational hazards of my day job.
 

Tom

Istar
Wow, I've been gone for awhile! I just got home from 2 weeks in Albuquerque and I'm extremely jetlagged but happy to be back. Hopefully I'll be able to keep better tabs on MS now. I missed talking with everyone.
 

La Volpe

Sage
Wow, I've been gone for awhile! I just got home from 2 weeks in Albuquerque and I'm extremely jetlagged but happy to be back. Hopefully I'll be able to keep better tabs on MS now. I missed talking with everyone.

Hey, Tom!

Glad to have you back (not that I would have known that you were away, given that I've been quite inactive as well, due to starting a new job). What were you doing in Albuquerque?
 
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Tom

Istar
Hi Volpe! It's good to see you.

I went down to Albuquerque to visit some friends. I've been to northern New Mexico a couple of times, so we just hung out instead of doing touristy stuff. One of my friends has a Subaru street racer so we did a lot of night driving in the city.

We went camping up the mountains, too, and got within a mile or two of the Bonita wildfire that's burning in Carson National Forest right now. At night we could see the red glow of the fire just over the mountain ridge reflected off the smoke cover. Some smoke jumpers were stationed as lookouts just up the road from our campsite and we got to talk to them while watching their helicopter drop water on the fire. It was pretty cool!
 
Well, I did it. I mowed my lawn. Not my parents lawn, not a landlords lawn, my lawn. It was blazing. But it was great and my two year old helped with his toy lawnmower. Now it really feels like I bought s house.
 

Tom

Istar
It has been a bit quiet around here. I didn't participate this year, but I know that Camp NaNoWriMo just wrapped up, so a lot of folks have probably been concentrating on that. Or it could be a summer slump. Things'll pick back up soon.
 

CupofJoe

Myth Weaver
End of the College teaching year too. Students are recovering from exams, Academics are marking them [the exams, not the students - that is really frowned upon]... Both are thinking about the summer break and trying to ignore the red date circled in September's calendar.
 

Aurora

Sage
It has been a bit quiet around here. I didn't participate this year, but I know that Camp NaNoWriMo just wrapped up, so a lot of folks have probably been concentrating on that. Or it could be a summer slump. Things'll pick back up soon.
No, it's actually just starting. It's July Camp.
 

Ban

Troglodytic Trouvère
Article Team
Meaning without a story will not lead to a story.
A story without meaning might develop meaning

Something I thought of to motivate myself. Hopefully it makes sense to someone else.
 

Aurora

Sage
Random thought of the day: what would happen if I listened to all of Skyrim's OSTs through the course of writing this novel? Would I be sick of it by the end of the NaNo?
 
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