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I’m just finishing up my current book. Actually, I won’t be finished with it until the end of the month, but I’m getting really close. I finished going through it again yesterday and it sounds pretty good. I even laughed in places. I guess I can still escape with my characters.

Karl heard me laughing once when I was writing and asked what I was laughing about. I told him I was telling myself jokes I’d never heard before.

I’m always interested in how other writers work. I usually write 50 pages, then stop and go through it. I ended up cutting the first chapter. Chapter two was a lot stronger.

So anyway, I write about 40 more pages, then go back through it all again. The good thing about writing like this is that by the time I get to the end of the book it’s pretty much ready to mail off. I’ve tried to write it without going back through it but I start feeling bogged down and it gets so bad that I have to force myself to write. Writing should never be forced. A very wise woman once told me to just have fun with writing. As long as I remember her words, then I do okay.

I have so many ideas running around in my head it’s starting to make me antsy. As soon as I finish this book, I’m going to spend at least a week working on proposals and I’m going to do it looking at the ocean. Karl and I are going to throw a tent in the back of his pickup and take off for about a week. There’s a great campground we like to go to except we haven’t been in years. It’s right off the beach. Someday I want a house on the beach *sigh*

Okay, I’m going to see if I can time this post for in the morning that way y’all will think I got up early to write it *snort*.
Hugs,
Karen Kelley
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