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I told my sister today that a friend of mine is turning forty. “He doesn’t look forty,” she said. “Well,” I said, “forty is the new thirty.” But it can’t be, we decided, because we’re almost thirty. Perhaps forty is the new thirty-five, or maybe thirty-three. We settled on thirty-three, and decided that thirty…
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In honor of this ridiculous, romantic, made-up holiday, I have made up a ridiculous story of romance, told in a series ridiculous haiku. A pink rubber roomthat his people built for himwas his claim to fame♥She had been betrayedand needed to punch the walls.She was seeing red.♥When they met, they knew.It was a rose-colored…
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I thought I’d post here that I am an official NaNoWriMo 2007 winner. Hooray! I should say, though, that it is really just Novel v1.0 right now. The experience has helped me to better understand the noveling process and I will definitely be adding to, revising and editing my novel, in the hopes that…
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I’ve been focusing on a different NaNo all month. Since procrastination is key to accomplishment, I wrote a haiku about it for this nano. NaNoWriMo is destroying my November. And this is ten words. Okay, it’s not that bad — I am behind but catching up. Here is my word count widget (better late…
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So, November is National Novel Writing Month, and I went ahead and signed up. The goal is to write a 50,000 word novel, from scratch, in November. While I already have a few unfinished novels, I decided that maybe I should just go ahead and write a third, finished, starter novel. The whole idea…
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I am not committing to writing a haiku every day anymore (see evidence below…) but, just for fun, here are two that I composed this morning. Wrong Haiku The right seventeensyllables eluded me.Please accept these ones. A Haiku in an Orange Jacket In my orange trenchcoat,I feel like a traffic cone.Cars, get out my…
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A haiku about another haiku alludes to this last haiku That’s it. Until I write more haikus (or publish those that have been deemed to be unpublishable), there will be no more daily haiku. If you want more, let me know! I work best under pressure… 😉 (#18 in the 5-7-5 Alive project.)
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I wrote a story once, in good fun, just to watch a character die (#17 in the 5-7-5 Alive project.)
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One lone tumbleweed Drifting across nothingness All alone and bare I wrote this one in Junior High School! (#16 in the 5-7-5 Alive project.)
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My life could be a Reality TV show About shoes and booze (#15 in the 5-7-5 Alive project.)