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Family/Friends,

With the Snowed In - 2nd Edition MS still in revision, I've had time to catch up this last week with other pressing items, reviewed a story for a fellow romance writer, wrote up my monthly Social Media Corner article for the PWC Newsletter, helping the PWC board with website revisions, wrote up two guest posts for other blogs and of course daily reading and writing.

Talking about reading and writing, my reading challenge has been going well as I've already met my one romance book a month quota last week. As far as my writing, the 1K word a day challenge went well the first week, but then with so much editing it became very difficult to do both edit endlessly and write (to meet my self-imposed quota). I will, however, resume my1K word a day challenge on 9/1.

On a side note, I'll tell you that after attending an online workshop for romance writing plots just yesterday I'm psyched for my next project so be on the look out for that :-)

Well folks, that's all for now.  You guys have a good weekend!
Maria

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  1. Great job Maria! Thank you for taking the time to critique my story and providing honest and straight forward feedback. I see a bottle of 151 in your future!

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  2. Hi Thai,

    Ah, yes, your story, you're welcome! Well then then that makes TWO stories that I reviewed. I need to keep all my stories straight, he, he.

    Take care!

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