Lucky Seven--Untitled WIP

It's been a while since I've posted, so I'd like to thank Eric Krause for tagging me in this little "game" of  Lucky Seven.

So here are the rules:

1. Go to page 77 in your current manuscript
2. Go to line 7
3. Copy down the next seven lines as they are – no cheating
4. Tag 7 other authors (Done on Facebook)

Being one of the Great Procrastinators, this manuscript is unfinished and currently less than 77 pages, so keeping with the meme, I will use page 7. Currently this Work-in-Progress is Untitled (YA):

The Marges weren’t the only nurses in the ward. There were also the Rebeccas. The Rebeccas were ridiculously attractive and far outnumbered by Marges. Rebeccas were perfect. They had wavy, dark hair pulled back into loose pony tails, while stray hairs fell softly around their flawless faces. They smiled and time stood still—scrubs looked fashionable.

I wanted to be a Rebecca—so beautiful, whimsical, and flirty—never trashy. I could imagine Marge as trashy, hanging out in some dive bar with a long skinny cigarette pinched between her yellow teeth. Violating a beer bottle in her right hand, the other rested firmly on her hip. I could picture Marge on Jerry Springer, slinging her fist, shouting, “Bitch! That’s my man!”

Updates!

I attempted NaNoWriMo for the first time this year. I didn't win. I did write more than 15,000 words on one story, and over 7,000 words on my Latch Key Kid collection of tales.

I am pretty proud of myself. While I didn't finish 50,000 words in November, I don't think I have ever written 15,000 words on ANYTHING (maybe a college research paper). This is a HUGE accomplishment for me.

I started out with the Latch Key kids and got bored, so I started working on a novel that I have been thinking about for a few months. I have no idea what I am going to call it, and I am not even sure how much I want to share here. Give me some time though; I am bound to come around.

I am going to post the Latch Key stuff here, like I promised. I will start editing it today and hopefully I can post it in short story form here on the blog. I wrote it out in chapters... long ones, so I will probably break it down and post blog size segments hopefully starting tomorrow.

Notice anything different? I moved the blog... again.

I am tired of trying to stay on top of software updates, so I decided I would let a google app do it for me. I love google. I am forwarding the domain, but I am not going to host the site myself anymore (what a relief).

I posted a blog on the old hosting before I deleted it, so that emails would go out to my subscribers. I can't seem to find a way to add my old subscribers here, so you will have to subscribe again if you want to get updates via email or rss.

I am excited to have that all out of the way. What have you been up to? Did you take part in NaNoWriMo?
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