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I am a snob.  I hate to admit it. I’m a snob.

This not the usual ‘I have better taste than they do’ or the ‘I am smarter than they are.’

No, this is much more insidious.  It sneaks up on you so slowly that you don’t even know it’s happening.

What is it, you ask? Well, it goes by many names – age, experience, smart, educated. It’s the thing that let’s you say ‘I know that already.’

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It certainly has been a tough 4 weeks since my last post. Those ‘count your blessings’ people – I just want to hit them.

Where to start? It started with another writing contest being finished. “How can that be tough”?” you ask. Do you have that letdown feeling after you’re done a project? I’ve always found that for me. It’s work, work, work and then nothing. It’s that time between finished and enjoy when you have lots of free time that you don’t know how to fill yet.
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OMG – it’s over. It has been three weeks since it finished and I still am recovering from the Program.

For those who don’t know, the 100-Day Program is run by The Write Practice and is designed to help people finish the first ugly draft of a novel in 100 days. Along the way, there are daily e-mails either cheering you on or giving a tidbit of advice. Links to detailed lessons are included as well as interviews with authors. It was uncanny the way some of these showed up when I truly needed them. I sometimes wondered if there was someone watching over my shoulder.

Continue reading The 100 Day Program – A Reflective Review

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