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02/21/2005: "President's Day and Writing"

Happy President’s Day

I’m spending my holiday writing. Don’t know if the president would approve. Don’t really care. I’m not even sure there is a traditional way to celebrate President’s Day – besides shopping of course, which I’m not gonna do.

It’s been a good day.

I’ve worked on the book more than three hours already today, four if you count the hour in the middle of the night when I couldn’t sleep and decided to work on the book instead. (Kathryn, one of my cats, seemed particularly annoyed by the tiny bit of light my pda gave off. She finally sat on my pda to put a stop to it.)

Current stats on the book:

word count = 82,184
chapters = 27
pages = 222 and that’s single-spaced

I think that when I finally print it to send it off for consideration, I’ll have to change it to double-spaced so that’ll be over 400 pages. Wow.

I’m not quite there yet though. There are some sections that aren’t are good as the others, so I want to fix them. And I should probably proof it a couple more times

I’ll try to work on it some more later today. But now, I’m taking a break.

My back was hurting. But I finally caved in and took that second Aleve and I feel much better now. Think I may need a nap though. It is after all a day off.

Happy President’s Day, everyone.

P.S. I’ve also been checking out greeting card markets for my V-day ditty. Gotta send away for some writer’s guidelines. Maybe after my snooze.