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Your Birth­date: August 10 Inde­pen­dent and dom­i­nant, you tend to be the rooster in most sit­u­a­tions. You’re very con­fi­dent and hardly any­thing ever shakes — or bakes — you. Mun­dane tasks make you feel peck­ish — you pre­fer to be mak­ing great flight plans. You are quite the orig­i­nal recipe. When peo­ple don’t “get” you, …

One of my sto­ries got rejected today. It didn’t upset me. Dis­ap­pointed, yes. Upset, no. When a writer sends out a query let­ter, a story, a par­tial, or full, he is ask­ing the recip­i­ent, “Do you think you can sell this?” The answer is either yes or no. Noth­ing more is nec­es­sary. The ques­tion you …

Good News: I’ve been work­ing. Bad News: I’ve been work­ing on things not worth keep­ing. 21,783 / 40,000(54.5%)

21,599 / 40,000(53.9%)

Today’s total: 20,001 / 40,000(50.0%) If you think I kept mani­a­cally typ­ing at the key­board until I broke 20k words, well, you’re…absolutely right.

Today’s count: 18,440 / 40,000(46.1%)