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Here's how the practice room works:

First of all, EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

At the given date and time (weekly schedule posted below), meet at post 1. It appears 30 minutes in advance of the hour (barring unusual circumstances), giving us a chance to set our goals in the comments. Declare your goal. Work toward furthering your project; word counting, revision, or whatever it needs - you decide.

Post 2: WE ARE UNPLUGGED! announces our hour. During that time, we write! The rules: no procrastinations. Please feel free to make tea or stand on your head as needed.

When the time is up, Post 3 appears with a chat box and we will get a chance to converse, or you can comment old-style to tell us what you got done! We are dying to know!

Read about a typical first time here. I make the schedule every Sunday. It will remain up in the side bar until I post the next week's schedule (feel free to make requests for particular times in the comments - I take them into serious consideration). All additions will be noted in in the side bar. Come back and check it often. (The schedule times are listed in Eastern Time Zone but the blog posts in Central - Tina's time zone. Our visitors are from all over the map.)

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May 26, 2010

Post 1: Unpluggage Begins 5 pm eastern

What will you be working on? Tell us in the comments.

14 comments:

  1. I'm here! I've actually been watching the clock today. Go me. I'll be working on a chapter of Taken or my spotlight for tomorrow. Hmm.

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  2. i'm going to attempt to calm myself down long enough to write something

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  3. Kate had a good news day!

    Yay, Casey! Good to see you! Hmmm? Spotlight? Sounds fun!

    Me, I'm going to try something new. And I'm going to have fun.

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  4. I'm going to be reading through what I've written... didn't do so well last night, but I'm not in as angsty a mood as I was yesterday, so hopefully there will be no mooping today.

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  5. Ohhhh! Wonderful!!! I was worried it was something bad. Congrats on your happy news, Kate!

    I'm thinking I should work on my spotlight. I really need to get a chapter done too, but I have another big spotlight this week and I'm running behind on it.

    Yay for something new Tina! That's awesome.

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  6. I hope the something new is awesome, Casey! It's totally necessary to ward off the mooping. As Marisa intimated, last night's chat was full of mooping and mooning. At least one was the antidote for the other.

    Off to make popcorn and occupy the kids while we write!

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  7. yesturday i got a partial request, and then today i got a full request less then 12 hours after sending the partial, because the editor couldn't wait to read the rest of my story

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  8. it's with a really small press, but i'm happy that anyone is this excited about my writing

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  9. Congrats! That is very exciting. Good luck!!!

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  10. KATE!!!!! That is so exciting!!
    :D

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