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  1. 1. finish writing my novel
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  2. 2. stop obesessing over the small stuff
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  3. 3. do a 5 minute writing exercise every day for a month
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  4. 4. learn how to draw.
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  5. 5. read 'the creative habit' by twyla tharp again
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  6. 6. go for a walk in the cemetery near my home 3-5x a week
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  7. 7. read a novel or a collection of short stories every 7-10 days
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  8. 8. attend a Shakespeare reading group
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  9. 9. try to get my cat's diabetes into remission
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  10. 10. read the newspaper more often
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  11. 11. make a list of what feeds me and add it to my life
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  12. 12. make a list of what depletes me and get it out of my life
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  13. 13. sort, organize, and file my paperwork
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  14. 14. go to the dentist for a cleaning & exam
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  15. 15. write more often in my creative journal
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  16. 16. take a bubble bath with candlelight & music 2-3x a week
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  17. 17. try new recipes.
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  18. 18. take more photos
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  19. 19. make a few new friends
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  20. 20. write an article for a magazine
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  21. 21. visit new york city
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  22. 22. pay off my back taxes
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  23. 23. read more poetry
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  24. 24. become a freelance writer & indexer so i can work from home
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  25. 25. write a humorous essay
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  26. 26. visit the van gogh museum in amsterdam
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  27. 27. play ragtime on the piano
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  28. 28. spend a week at a tropical beach
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  29. 29. learn to swing dance
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  30. 30. take a chocolate tour in switzerland
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  31. 31. witness a miracle
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write a humorous essay
Started this yesterday. 20 months ago

It’s called ‘The Dog in the Concrete Block.’

Humorous essay.

We’ll see.



learn how to draw (read all 2 entries…)
3-17 20 months ago

Recently, I’ve drawn a canvas/wood lawn chair and bottlecaps.

Bottlecaps are extremely difficult to draw—all of those angles of light in the little ‘groovy’ things along the edge of the bottlecap. Who knew?



finish writing my novel (read all 7 entries…)
Structure Wall 20 months ago

I’ve been doing this cool thing…

I tend to do a few visual/tactile sort of things when I am writing, like color-coding ‘themes’ to see if there is a pattern, or cutting things into scenes and trying to find shape to it all. I don’t tend to write linerally…I just start with an image or a line or and wander around until I have gathered a lot of fragments and scenes.

At some point in this process, I get curious to discover its overall shape…

Large, white walls are good for this…which I had in my old place; unfortunately, the place I live now, an attic, is all slants and angles.

However…Workmen are constructing a dormer, and, wa-lah!, I have a ‘temporary’ 9’by 25’ foot wall to shield me from the workers and the elements.

It’s really helping many of the novel’s elements to fall into place. It’s ‘taking shape.’

Am attaching a photo I took the first night I began the project….there are LOTS more pages and bit and pieces now…



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