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I WROTE A SCENE! And other writing/life updates!

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 Yesterday morning, I woke up with a scene running through my head. Nothing really unusual for me, except it hasn't been happening as much as it used to. So this time I decided to grab onto it before it faded into the void. I got up, did my usual morning stuff, grabbed my coffee, sat back in bed, and scribbled in my morning pages...but then I fired up the laptop and hopped on Ellipsus. And started WRITING. It felt so damn good! It was so much fun! Now, the experience wasn't 100% perfect. A few paragraphs in, I started experiencing a few irritations. Ellipsus is cool, but I discovered there were a few things I didn't like. The font that went with my chosen theme looked weird in italics. So I figured out how to change the font and kept it moving. But then two more weird things happened. First, when I typed *** to switch POVs, it changed it to a line. No biggie, I thought, I'll fix it later. But then...it also changed back to the original font. WTF? Ugh! So I ended up expo...
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Notebook System Update and Thoughts

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 I brought my thinking book with me to work today. It's a heavy little booger. But I like having it with me. It got me thinking about everything I'm using and want to use for my writing--notebooks, software, apps, ma brain...lol I would love to have it all in one place, but that's impossible, of course. I need different things to function in different ways. I made a list in the thinking book of everything I've currently got going, which then led me to start this blog post. So, here goes: I have two A5 ring binders, one I bought from Amazon that has skinny rings and a Moterm I got from Jaime that has bigger rings. I was using the skinny one as kind of an all-in-one writing binder, but I decided to move the reference materials and workbooks to the Moterm since it has more room. I'm thinking about resetting the skinny one as either a series bible or some other form of story note-keeping. Next is my A5 Vera Bradley spiral notebook. It's currently housing the few act...
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Goodbye, Artist's Way. (Writing Meeting Update!)

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Yesterday, Jaime and I FINALLY had a writing meeting after so many months! Well, it was more of a bestie hangout day. We didn't just discuss writing, we caught up on EVERYTHING. Which was awesome. She surprised me with my Mother's Day present from Alex--the Hobonichi Weeks cover she'd bought for herself when she bought mine for my birthday! He bought it from her for me! I had been planning on buying it when I had the money. So sweet! I have to say, yesterday was one of the best days I've had in a long time. In addition to the meeting/hangout, this stuff happened: When I paid my rent, I found out I have a huge credit on my account, so next month I'm only going to owe about 1/4 of what I usually pay! This is a huge blessing, considering we're on semester break right now, so that future paycheck is going to suck! Right before the meeting, I attended part of the livestream of the GNTC graduation ceremony. My main student whom I've been tutoring all semester grad...
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