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“Goals are dreams with deadlines.” (Diana Scharf) Writing Sans Deadlines For years I wrote my novels without deadlines except for the ones I made for myself. I would set goals for getting this or that story written by this or that time. Usually I did not meet those self-imposed deadline goals. Life would happen with all sorts of interruptions of …
Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. At last. I know I’ve been dilatory about posting lately. Don’t you just love that word dilatory? Sounds just like what it means and goodness knows, Aunt Love thinks that describes me when she’s trying to get me to wash the dishes or bring the clothes in off the line. I get to …