No, not that kind. [Your sanity is not in question.**]
You realize you’re better at ideation and first drafting on paper.
But someone has to digitize that brilliance.
Time for…a virtual assistant.
Always wise to check references, however.
**…yet.
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Writers Horoscope August 25 : Today, you’ll have your eyes on a different prize.
© Tim Haag
And you will pay for it.
Three pounds later, 2000 words in arrears, you will resolve to turn it around tomorrow.
You will need twice the willpower to atone for your sins–a day of watercress/kale smoothies and 4000 words [you might as well riff on your day of decadence].
But hey, it was fun while it lasted, right?
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Writers Horoscope August 24: Rejection? Make it work for you.
Your friend woke up to three ‘Thanks, but no thanks.’ emails last Friday.
A pity.
You could be next.
You could give up. Or you could…
- unleash your trusty PaperMate… [Adding sound effects is perfectly acceptable.]
- scrawl out an angry, primed-for-the-trashcan “You don’t know what you’re missing!” tirade…
- move on with your novel about a thoughtless, talentless book editor who encounters a gauntlet of starving homicidal writers.
Your choice.
Writers Horoscope August 23 : Run your own race. Find your own pace.**
Sure, others will push past you and achieve more notable success.
Look at it this way [yes, it’s Chapter Umpteen in ‘find the positives’.]: You may never have to confront that damnable ‘impostor syndrome’ that creeps up on some folks. And if you keep lip-diddling your way through your one book, you won’t face that fearsome ‘sophomore slump’.
** Yes, sentence 2 was redundant, but I fell victim to the rhyme. So sue me.
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Writers Horoscope August 22: The work of others calls your name. Stay original.
Go ahead…
Take a quick peek.
Not bad, huh…
It might be just what you need to freshen up that lifeless essay on your daily struggles.
Tsk, tsk, tsk…stealing from an inanimate object.
Shame on you.
Writers Horoscope August 21: Prepare to be exploited.
Your desperation attracts jackals.
You wanted an editor for your easy chapter book. First quote to come in: $1500.
Say what?
Exhibit patience. Not your strong suit.
Lower quotes are on the way.
Time for you to be the exploiter.**
**Even if you follow up on a $500 offer, and don’t like the results, find another editor with a reasonable rate. Result: Detailed feedback from two editors and you’re still out hundreds less than if you’d jumped at that first profiteer.
Writer Horoscope August 20: Today, avoid being your own worst enemy.
You have enough demons undermining your progress.
Free up those fingers and finish that next chapter.
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Writers Horoscope August 19: Today, break from your daily routine.
You don’t always have to write first thing in the morning.
Seek adventure that might spur a whole new plot, a new series of blog posts, even a misdemeanor on your up-to-now unsullied criminal record.
Be open to possibility.
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Writers Horoscope August 18: Your standards will be tested today.
Newspaper’s…store sign’s…blog post’s…everywere you look, you see typographical error’s, subject-verb disagreement’s, and multiple misuse’s of the apostrophe.
Your wundering if its a plot to drive you nut’s. **
What to do? Cease and desist reading hard or Web copy?
Or, for a measure of writerly catharsis, whip out a red pen at the coffee shop and have at the local rag. [Do resist intrusive rants and violent shredding, and you might consider an iced frappa-soya-chino instead of the lawsuit-inducing 16 oz. dark roast .]
Or just shrug and forge ahead, secure with the guiding light of Warriner’s English Grammar and Composition rules.
**Count the number of errors in the bold text and let me know in the comments how many you’ve detected. If you’re really intense, copy/paste the text in the comment box and paste in little dagger emojis next to the errors.
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Writers Horoscope August 17: Solid advice exists elsewhere.
Age-old wisdom from golfing instructors: “Keep your head down.”
It works with first drafts too.
Head down. Or at least away from the screen.
The misspelled ‘their’…the extra space at the end of a sentence…the ‘angle’ instead of ‘angel’? Fixable.
‘Drift’ in your draft? Not so fixable. Ditto that feeling you’ve been through a grinder after your daily 1000 words.
Remember: Head down. [You can sweat the ergonomics later.]
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