Kill your darlings (response to sarah_prineas's post)

...which you can find here.

Killing your darlings means to get rid of scenes that are nicely written, but which ultimately don't add enough to the main body of writing to keep. And, it makes you sad to delete them. And if you're me, they go in their own file so they can be released into the wild and live their own happy lives somewhere else.

Here's mine.

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Vacation--one last gasp

My family gave me the soundtrack to Prince Caspian for my birthday, and oh my, it is perfect music to drive to! It was 72 degrees today (!) (and 17 the week before Christmas, and 38 tomorrow, so it's not like we live like this all the time), so for a last vacation event, I took the kids out to the other nearby Civil War battlefield--Pea Ridge National Military Park. We listened to Prince Caspian all the way there and back; it seemed to fit the outing as well.

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It was so WARM, too! Lovely. All in all, not a bad day for January!