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Day 9: 3 ways to deal with apparent failure.

By Scott | Published: 2009/11/10
Day 3, No Writing, bump. Day 4, No Writing, bump. Day 5, 6, 7, No writing: bump, bump, bump in the road. Day 8, I wrote on paper. Sometimes, cleaning away technology makes it easy to pump out the words. Day 9, I took my paper work and adapted to the computer, and things started [...]
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Day 2: Three Writing Habits.

By Scott | Published: 2009/11/02
Did I write on Nov 2?  yes, yes I did.  A nice little article for my Weight Management Blog.  Wait a minute, wasn’t I supposed to be writing a book? Isn’t the whole Prag Pro Wri Mo, November National Writing Month about writing books? It sure is, but remember my goal was to write every [...]
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A day of rest

By Scott | Published: 2009/11/01
Did I write today?  Definitely I did.  Did I write towards my book?  No.   Sunday is more a day of rest for me.  I try, when I can, to take Sunday to relax, recharge, spend it with family, and think.  Of course, I still wanted to commit to my writing schedule.  Write every day [...]
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Writing Can Be Scary

By Scott | Published: 2009/11/01
The Mission? Should you accept is, to write a book in the month of November. Over at Pragmatic Programmers, they issued a challenge similar to the National Novel Writing Month at NaNoWriMo.org, to write a pragmatic lifestyle or technology related book for the month of November. I have always said I will not only write [...]
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