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mdbell79

I'm off to Chicago for the Pitchfork Music Festival with my wife Jessica, so no new work! Also, some good news!-http://tinyurl.com/mdbell79

mdbell79 Finished rewriting another chapter today. I'm writing book reviews this afternoon, and then off to Chicago tomorrow. Back in a few days.
mdbell79 Last chance! Vote "Alex Trebek Never Eats Fried Chicken" for Million Writers Award: http://www.storysouth.com/m...
mdbell79 Edited two more pages tonight, of which I kept exactly two words from the first draft. Daunting stuff.
mdbell79 Edited the first chapter of Book Two today, and by edited I mean almost completely rewrote. Felt good, knowing what should go there now.
mdbell79 On break for three days while I road trip it to Kentucky and back with Aaron Burch and Dan Wickett. Editing resumes on Wednesday.
mdbell79 Edited a chapter and saved it from the cutting room floor. I quit my job tomorrow, and then, after some NewPages stuff, its back to editing.
mdbell79 End of a two-day break. Back to work tomorrow to get the first draft readable. First task: Cutting.
mdbell79 I wrote the last word today: http://www.mdbell.com/blog/...
mdbell79 135,361 words, 1019 tonight. I just need time, and wakefulness. Too tired to write anymore tonight. Over 10,000 words in the last 24 hours.
mdbell79 134,342 words, 8,519 words today. I'm in the last fifteen pages of the book, and I've got to go to my fucking job. Can't wait to get home.
mdbell79 127,846 words, 3308 tonight. Almost seven thousand words in the last two days. I want to keep going, but know I should stop, save something.
mdbell79 125,823 words, 1282 today. I'm entering the end of the book, the last 20 or 30 pages. I want to finish this week, to at least get it down.
mdbell79 124,541 words, 3,357 today, written during a 30 hour blackout. Had to go to a coffee shop and a bar to recharge my laptop.
mdbell79 120,914 words, 555 of them just now in the middle of the night. Read new reviews by me and other at http:///www.newpages.com
mdbell79 120,359 words, 1105 this morning. Moving along...
mdbell79 119,254 words, 2020 today. Good work today so far.
mdbell79 118,308 words, 1074 tonight. I want to finish a draft of this thing in two weeks. I've got to work even harder, write even better.
mdbell79 117,234 words total. Finally got a day off, spent it setting up my new computer, which I introduced to my novel to the tune of 1537 words.
mdbell79 115,697 words, 2,088 today. Thanks to everyone who came to my reading last night, and to Barry, Stephan, and Fred for reading w/ me.