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Portland SuicideGirl sighting of the week: Doxie in Trader Joe's. (What a cutie.)

First draft came out better than expected--though it took longer than I'd hoped (eight months to the day from the point the idea first struck me to my finishing the final chapter). Good feedback from friends. And now onto the painful process of rewriting...

Off to DC at an ungodly hour tomorrow morning - to take in the Stewart/Colbert rally on Saturday.
Woo hoo!

Just discovered the Amanda Palmer side-project, Evelyn Evelyn - and these two great videos!

"ELEPHANT ELEPHANT"




"HAVE YOU SEEN MY SISTER EVELYN"

I haven't written this fast since by deadline-heavy grad school days. What fun!

I've decided to temporarily shelve Wildworld and give the new book a try. I need the breath-of-fresh-air that I hope Dottie Notkin can provide. (What a little scamp she is!) And I'm gonna go with the "experiment" deal again, inviting friends to read along as the chapters are knocked out--at a much brisker pace than those last ones were arriving, for god's sake! (Famous last...
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Weird night. Something woke me at 4:00 in the morning, an idea for a new novel, another "middle-grade" book, but sooooooooo different that the first one--something lighter, more rapid-fire and, well, fun. The idea was already so strangely fleshed out. I don't know if I'd had some dream that inspired it or what, but I put on the lamp and started hurriedly jotting notes;...
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