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That Post-Writing Feeling.

Ahh! I feel pretty good.

I just finished writing a book review and it was the easiest peasiest book review I've ever written. Usually a book review would take me days to finish (sometimes even weeks!), but this one just took me 45 minutes.

Can't say what book the review is for, because I haven't sent it in for publication yet. This isn't on commission so I won't know whether they'll publish it ... until they do.

In the meantime, I'll be basking in that nice post-writing afterglow. It feels nice and warm!
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  1. Anonymous1/12/08 11:31 pm

    45 minutes??? It takes me that long to knock up two paragraphs, before deleting half! Will look out for the easiest peasiest book review then...perhaps the NanoWriMo loosened up the muse eh?

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  2. Ted Mahsun2/12/08 12:40 am

    Perhaps! It would've been more useful if she was around DURING November though...

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