I'm doing 13 things
Not bad, but I need to keep up with the submitting!
SimplyStacey's Life List
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1. Eat 3 sit-down meals daily like a civilized human being instead of noshing all day and night like a depressed animal in captivity.
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2. Work out every single day in June, July, and August!
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3. give one new Kiva loan per month for a year
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4. Donate 100 jars of spaghetti sauce to the food pantry.
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5. learn how to manage my money
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6. Get 43 fiction and poetry rejections in 2012.
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7. Rewrite the current book until it's completely unputdownable
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8. Win a poetry chapbook contest.
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9. Write a fantastic book of poetry.
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10. Win a poetry book contest.
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11. Write and e-publish a novella.
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12. read, read, and read some more
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13. register to be a bone marrow donor
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How I did it
It made me
feel beautiful 
How I did it: I read reviews of perfumes and ordered samples of things that sounded appealing to me from The Perfumed Court. I also tried a couple of fragrances at random at a department store. I made notes of everything I tried out...but when I found the right one, I knew it was the one.Paying attention to different scents made me more aware of scent in my everyday life. I enjoyed the experience, and the new fragrance will bring me a lot of pleasure e… Read how I did it…
It made me
Proud & Thrilled!
How I did it: I wrote a romance about a haunted house in Chicago, revised it, and pitched it to a prominent agent at the Romance Writers of America national conference. When she asked for a full manuscript, I revised the whole thing again and then sent it. She said she wanted to represent it, and I was overjoyed!Well, after that, nothing happened. I got in touch with her a couple of times to see how it was going, and she was vague and negative in her r… Read how I did it…
It made me
very happy!
How I did it: We had never adopted a rescue pup before, but we went to our local shelter and met some dogs. This little pup had a sad story, and we thought our sweet old golden retriever would be a good influence on her. We filled out the paperwork to adopt her. They had her spayed and we picked her up the next day. We gave both her and our old dog a lot of love and attention, and they are getting along already. She is a curious, affectionate girl and … Read how I did it…
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Dude, you rock so hard. This story is AMAZING, and I can’t WAIT to show readers!! Seriously. :D
Yayyy! I’m done I’m done! This week I am just being footloose and fancy free. Next week, it’s back to working my ass off on writing!
Last week before I sent my edits off, I double-checked them and found most of my edits missing from my saved doc. It devastated me, but I resigned myself to redoing all of them. At least it would be easier the second time around, right?
But then I found a draft with most of the edits intact. I had messed some things up by not saving versions under the right names. I did have to send the edits to my editor in two chunks, which upset me, but if my editor was mad, I didn’t hear about it.
I have a second, small round of edits to do now. I wish I had caught everything in the first round! I tried! But I’ll get these back to her on time.
