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CATHY’S WEEKLY RAP FOR JUNE 25, 2023

RECKONING: I managed 12 hours instead of the ten I had planned (yay!) but didn't quite get through the revision of chapter 26 (not so yay!)

ANALYSIS: This is a win. Dawn writing for a couple of hours worked well and I did twenty percent more than I planned. This morning I felt the urge to rush a pivotal scene to finish the chapter but decided that I needed another session to do it justice, so I'm giving myself that. .

PLAN: Continue morning two-hour sessions. Finish chapter 26. Start chapter 27 rough draft.

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Jennifer S. Brown's avatar

RECKONING: I fell off the map the past two weeks. Turns out between prom, graduation, family in, sending my daughter off to be a camp counselor, along with other non-family things, I was completely MIA.

ANALYSIS: Clearly it was a bust on the writing front. However, I got some good reading in, which is always a good thing. I also had two classes accepted to teach in the fall (at The Loft), so that's giving me motivation to get back on track.

PLAN: My biggest writing plan this week is actually not really writing. I'm going to meditate everyday. I've been feeling down about my novel on submission and that no one's biting, so I'm going to start each writing day with a clearing or affirming meditation. Then I will also do five 10-minute micro memoirs this week and reacquaint myself with my novel and start another exercise from 3 A.M. Epiphany. (These are exercises I'm incorporating into my novel, and they came be fairly in-depth, so it's reasonable to spread them over a couple of weeks.)

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