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Tonight I finally sat down and started writing on Happy.  It sucks-mostly stream of consciousness around all my ideas for the introductory chapter, but it is down on paper and can only get better from here.  Thanks to all of you for your words of wisdom.  You all said basically the same thing and while I knew that the answer was just to sit down and write, for some reason I could not do it.  It was uncomfortable reading over and over again that there was no secret, just the work of writing, but reading it over and over again helped me do it. So thank you!

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Congratulations Rebecca! Keep the words flowing and remember, there's nothing wrong with stream of consciousness and clunky construction - that's what revision and editing is for. :)

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You did it! Nothing can stop you now.

I'm sure what you've written so far isn't as bad as you think. The best part is that you're writing it down. Sometimes stream of consciousness is the easiest way for us to get our thoughts out. (When I do it, I call it mind puke. LOL!)

Keep it up.

JudyB



Edited 10/18/2009 1:08 pm ET by cl-judy.bee
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