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A week of Diary of a Writing Project: The End?

Monday, Day 258

Writing during the summer is harder for me.

I feel restless.

Unfortunately not in the « diving into work and writing 5K words a day » kind of restless.

Restless like being in the house feels uncomfortable.
Restless like just going out for a normal walk around the block is uncomfortable.

Yep, fellow writer, I think you are absolutely right: I need to take some vacation!

Not from the writing. I need a break from the day-to-day.

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A week of Diary of a Writing Project: Up’s and Down’s under a perfect blue sky

Monday, Day 251

I enjoy reading the Nancy Drew books.

Well, the first 3 of the famous ghostwritten series. I did my research and found out the first 23 books were worth it. The others, written by other ghostwriter, some are racists, some are simply boring. And I’m not gonna spend a dime finding out which is which.

Of course, if you’re looking for diversity in your reading, better leave those kids novels on the shelves.

Promise, this post isn’t a book review, it’s really about writing!

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