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Monday, October 23, 2006

New Math

Okay, so today it's foot + butt + chair = writing. Got it? Good.

Sometimes you need to have a butt-kicker in your corner. Paul's mine. Whenever I suffer from a bout of woe-is-me or wander off the path to success because of some random, irresistable shiny object, he kicks me in the butt and puts me back on track. The verbal butt-kicking may hurt during the process, but afterward, I always feel excited about my career and grateful that he put foot to butt. (Thanks, Paul--you rawk!)

So he kicked my butt yesterday as I wandered away from NINTH GRADE SUCKS (and the First Pass pages for EIGHTH GRADE BITES--which are nearing completion) to work on DEVON and this new thing (yeah, yeah, I'll tell you later...be patient, minions). I was drifting toward an older project and wanting to work on details, when his foot hit me hard and I shook off that daze. Now I can focus on Vlad again. So today I'm finishing up as much of the First Pass pages as I can and working on NGS--which is going to kick even more butt (heh) than EGB, I'm sure.

Also, I mailed out Minion Bling! If you or anyone you know might be interested in some Bling (buttons that pay homage to yours truly and yours truly's book), just drop me a line. I can't promise they'll get there fast, but I can promise they'll get there FREE. (And that they'll rock when they do)

1 Comments:

Blogger Ewoh Nairb said...

Good thing you have Paul's foot... that is hard to out-source properly.

4:50 PM  

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