Shawn L. Bird

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words July 4, 2013

Filed under: Poetry,Writing — Shawn L. Bird @ 12:38 pm
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I commit to write

one thousand words a day

So I am 3 437 words behind today.

Day four.

I read the manuscript

the W.I.P.

and laugh out loud

at scenes so real

I believe them.

More scenes

Good scenes

but

how do they connect?

Where will I

find the patchwork

pieces to make

this fit together?

I think.

I clip a poodle.

I think.

I clean the kitchen.

I think.

I make the bed.

I think.

I go to the gym.

I think.

I tell my students,

“Don’t think. Just write,

your brain is in your pen.”

So now I need

to take

my own advice.

 

harping on June 8, 2013

Filed under: Writing — Shawn L. Bird @ 10:33 pm
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Today, I was procrastinating the task of sitting down to finish my high interest low vocabulary novella that has been hovering over my head for something like 5 years.

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How do I procrastinate?   Well, today it was by transposing some of the tunes I have memorized in the key of C, into the key of G so I can play them on my little double strung Brittany harp.

You’ll be happy to know that I *did* actually sit down at the computer eventually, and a couple of hours later, I *did* finish the ubiquitous novella called #8 (aka Number Eight) this afternoon.

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*C*e*l*e*b*r*a*t*e*

*w*i*t*h*

*m*e*!*

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Now onto the revisions.  (Between the harping sessions, of course). 😉