James D.

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  1. Six months, 40,000+ words and 79 pages in my word processor later, I've finished my book. It is a reference book of sorts--a thesaurus for middle and high school students that defines synonyms one by one and explains logical places to use them instead of just blindly picking them out of a Roget's.

    My mother is proofreading it for me--former English teacher and all that. I hope to be able to self publish it soon.

  2. I just finished a 8-page project that I was procrastinating on. I do not know how Desmond Doomsday is able to write a book and raise a family or how James is able to write six books!

    In fairness, I haven't finished anything, and I've barely started a couple of them.

  3. As some of you know, I'm writing a reference book to help middle and high school students write better papers (just hit 20,000 words, btw) and I noticed that in my list of words to avoid, these two were back-to-back:

    Loud

    Love

    So, I got a Soundgarden reference into my book without even trying. Bonus.