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I am finally, finally done with the first draft of Dreamwielder. The climatic chapter was a beast to write. I spent damn near 20 hours on the single chapter alone, including one grueling 13-hour stint Saturday night where I nearly made it to the end, but fizzled out.
I make a habit of emailing myself the novel manuscript every time I add to it or make significant changes (just to make sure I have a back-up copy), and here's the transcript of my e-mail to myself when I finally crapped out early Sunday morning:
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from Garrett Calcaterra
to gcalcaterra
date Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 5:46 AM
subject Dreamwielder
mailed-by gmail.com
Message:
Fuck. 32... alolst
-me
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