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I’ve been looking for this

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Years ago, I undertook the ransacking of my memory to create an exhaustive list of books I’ve read.  You might think that was crazy, one of my best friends did.  And I probably did fail to remember some of the stories I had read during my near thirty years of life (at the time).  But I used some tricks and did some searching and came up with something that was pretty complete.

Eventually, all I was left with were those books for which I could remember the cover or a few plot points, but could never find the right thing.  The Things I Did For Love is just such a book – THE final book plot and cover details that haunted my memory and would not allow me to simply write off that I could not write it down in my Great Read It list.

Thanks to CLIQUEY PIZZA 2: more 80’s teen book series & pop culture, I now know what the title of this dang book is, and the author, and I can put it on my Read It list for good.  In fact, once I read the Cliquey Pizza coverage on The Things I Did For Love, I automatically went out and re-purchased a copy that I intend to re-read just because it has been a massive thorn in my list for so long!  …and because I’m not quite done reliving the cheesy teen romances that I used to love.

Thank you Cliquey Pizza for saving my list!  Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Chronicles of Plastic Deer | Swoon Reads

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My homage to the teen romances of my youth, Chronicles of Plastic Deer, is now on Swoon Reads.  Swoon Reads is new publisher site to harvest crowd rating and feedback on a book in order to determine whether or not it should be published.  So…kind of like a publisher’s own fiction board.

It solves two problems of mine:  not know where to put the full text of my book and getting involved in a community of like minded creators (which I’ve been told I need to do).

National Novel Writing Month Done!

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I did it, after two years of enough obstacles and sabotage to ruin my chances of winning–I have triumphed ONCE AGAIN!  That is, finally again after the first time in 2008.  I have completed a brand new novel of over 50,000 words in the month of November.  And what’s better–it’s not even another un-finished project.  It’s over, it’s done!  So, it’s really like a novella, but that’s ok because those cheesy 80s teen romances didn’t pack in a lot of verbiage anyway, and that’s what I was writing for.

It needs editing, granted, but man, I am so relieved that I could actually get to the end of something I put my nose to just for me.  I will rest well.  I will feel better and I will go on a date tomorrow.  And it’s good that this here particular challenge is done because I’m running out of the pages I drew up in my comics to stock this month.  Time to get back to the old stories.

From before:  Nanowrimo update

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