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Sunday, November 10, 2002

update!

i thought an exclamation point was a good idea.

what have i been up to? well, i finished my redesign... except now i hate this page. but blogger templates are such a pain in the ass i can't seem to make myself work on this to get it to look the way i picture it in my mind. maybe i'll do that later.... or not.

otherwise i've been reading. i'm onto raymond carver, what we talk about when we talk about love. i guess it's nice that i should read him, as people have compared me to him a couple of times. he says so much with so little, and i admire that. i honestly don't know how much i write like him, though... eh. anyway.

i don't think i've worked on my 100 words project at all this week. blah. it was a busy, stressful week, and i haven't really felt like it. maybe i'll work on that later. if i remember.

i decided to try out workshopping some of my stories at zoetrope, but when i signed up for an account, i discovered that they assign you ten stories and make you read and critique at least five stories before you can read critiques of your own work. and the critiques all have to be thoughtful and helpful... and at least 100 words (which annoys me because i can't just go, "um yeah. nice." and call it done). out of the stories i've been assigned, i've been able to read two all the way to the end without getting bored and giving up. i'm not sure how this is going to work out for me, but whatever. i'm determined to get through the initial five so that i can post and get critiqued. after that, i have to critique at least five more stories before i can post another one. so much work...

it's very gray today. i think i still want to be in bed.





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