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Dec. 31st, 2007 04:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanI just finished the rough draft of Going North. I am not done in any reasonable sense, even for today. I have to go over the last five or six chapters, which were written at white-hot speed (for me, anyway) and put in as many revisions as I can do in a few hours. Then I have to see if I've really truly conquered Open Office -- that is to say, to see if it will actually print a manuscript with consecutive page numbers and each chapter starting on a different page and everything handsome about it. All the signs look good.
Still, most of the time over the past three years, I thought that I would never get here. The view is lovely.
Happy New Year, everybody, whether you are happily alone, or celebrating with friends, or trapped with people you'd rather have some distance from; whether you're hopeful or wistful or both at once; whether it's been a fine year or a fraught one, I hope that you too can have a pause, a place to feel refreshed, before plunging back into the maelstrom.
Pamela
Still, most of the time over the past three years, I thought that I would never get here. The view is lovely.
Happy New Year, everybody, whether you are happily alone, or celebrating with friends, or trapped with people you'd rather have some distance from; whether you're hopeful or wistful or both at once; whether it's been a fine year or a fraught one, I hope that you too can have a pause, a place to feel refreshed, before plunging back into the maelstrom.
Pamela
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Date: 2007-12-31 11:00 pm (UTC)And may your next year be filled with joy and prosperity and success and fulfillment.
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Date: 2007-12-31 11:02 pm (UTC)w00t!
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Date: 2007-12-31 11:10 pm (UTC)We have a bookmas present for you. But it is here where you are not. Eventually we will fix one of those two things.
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Date: 2007-12-31 11:14 pm (UTC)Oh, and a bit of news: I'll probably be bringing my daughter to town in early April. She's starting to look at colleges. Yes, Carleton's on the list of possibilities.
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Date: 2007-12-31 11:22 pm (UTC)And Happy New Year (spending it quietly at my residence with partner, with good food and a Thin Man movie)
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Date: 2007-12-31 11:31 pm (UTC)Re: OpenOffice, make sure you've got the current version. I recently installed 2.3, and immediately found stupid formatting bugs (which it took me a while to determine to be OO's fault rather than due to other new stuff). The more recent 2.3.1 seems to have fixed that problem.
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Date: 2008-01-01 12:24 am (UTC)congrats!
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Date: 2007-12-31 11:47 pm (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2008-01-01 12:25 am (UTC)oh!.. and
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Date: 2008-01-01 04:32 am (UTC)Happy New Year too.
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Date: 2008-01-01 12:24 pm (UTC)Happy New Year!
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Date: 2008-01-01 03:42 pm (UTC)Yay!
Date: 2008-01-01 06:12 pm (UTC)Yay!
Date: 2008-01-01 07:41 pm (UTC)Rough drafts are HARD. I finally realized I couldn't write fiction because I couldn't write more than a few pages, ever. Nothing would stick together.
And not only have you written this book, you have written other books, books that I love.
Thank you!
Chica*---
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Date: 2008-01-02 12:35 am (UTC)Congratulations!!!
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Date: 2008-01-02 01:03 am (UTC)Re: A milestone
Date: 2008-01-02 04:29 am (UTC)and a happy new year to you as well.
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Date: 2008-01-03 03:41 am (UTC)Congratulations! I am sincerely delighted.
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Date: 2008-01-07 03:39 am (UTC)Congratulations, and (belated) happy new year!
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