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How do you celebrate when you achieve a writing goal/ finish a story?

Generally, I don’t. I’m too exhausted, filled with so much euphoria I feel like I’m floating and there are about 80 other things that are time-sensitive that Mommy has to do before bed.

Well.

That was a short answer.

I, uh, guess I should ask and answer another question so I can meet that 150 word minimum requirement.

Ummmm… Lessee here… We’ve addressed some of the things I do in my “off time” (Hint: there isn’t a lot of that as an active SAHM. I could list it off, but you might die of exhaustion. Or boredom.).

I’ve mentioned once or twice that my “flow” for non-fiction writing is very different than my fiction writing (I think I’ve figured out how to end that research paper for an SCA Arts and Sciences Competition. I know the “theme” of the last paragraph, I’ve just got to make it all academically clever sounding and all that so it feels like I dropped the mic at the final period.).

We’ve gone over how I try to get myself out of writing quagmires (None of my tricks have worked this last time (2 years). Maybe I need to “fill the well” as Neil Gaiman puts it).

Talked about people who cheese me off (Memo to me – write that email to that guy about that book so I’m not the jerk-face that I complain about when other people do it to me…).

Muses a few times (Where the hell are those bitches? It’s been, like, 2 years? How much space do those chicks fucking need?).

Ya know, I’m really not good with the whole creative deadline thing. I know this question isn’t supposed to be a big deal, but I’m getting stressed out because I feel like I have to come up with something witty and clever and deep and all that.

Oh, look. I’ve hit 333 words.

Huzzah(!) for meeting goals and such.

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