Updating my Canadian #SwimWrite ms means not only replacing Queen with King in a loonie reference, but also have a character leaf through a Gordie Howe biography rather than through a Wayne Gretzky one.
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And another thing I'll have to update in my set-in-BC #swimwrite story...
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One of the updates I need to make during revisions of my #SwimWrite ms:
Someone provides a shiny new Loonie when a coin toss is required. I have to replace QE2 with KC3. 🇨🇦
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Who'd have thought that someone's quiston on Threads about Mark Carney's French would be helpful for revisions of my #swimwrite ms? (Which I wrote when he was still with the Bank of England...)
Disclaimer: There are no bankers or PMs in my ms, and language politics is restricted to cereal boxes. (🇨🇦)
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I'm revising my almost-shelved #SwimWrite ms for Reasons. One point I update is switching out Penny Oleksiak for Summer McIntosh in a reference.
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Lane 4 of an empty but dressed-up 25m pool seen from the bottom end.
At a #SwimMeet all day. The live program/results website is down and we're writing race/heat/lanes on our forearms like in the old days. (Or like the kids in my #SwimWrite story.)
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I'm at a swim meet, and in the heat after mine, a swimmer was disqualified exactly the same way as my #swimwrite MC. 😕
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I'm rereading my several-years-old #swimwrite ms for reasons and aside from the required revisions and changed social media landscape I realize there's another update I might have to make.
Canadian friends, do you have King Charles on loonies yet?
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I'm rereading my #swimwrite ms before diving into revisions. I just stopped, thinking "Are my characters too nice?"
And then I remember they're all Canadians and I start reading again.🇨🇦
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I'm reading my #swimwrite my before diving into revisions, and yesterday I lost the piece of paper with my handwritten notes. (I'm reading during my daily commutes. It seemed practical.) 😥
Starting over again and hoping my ideas will come back.
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Almost surreal #swimwrite experience: Reading a scene I wrote set at a swim meet, where MC describes the screaming of the kids during a relay race, only to be timekeeper at a relay race a day later (my ears were ringing).
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Swim meet today was the best!
It's a team meet between clubs, "all categories", meaning we swam with kids my daughter's age and younger.
The atmosphere was great, and we encouraged all swimmers from our club, whether we knew them or not. We were a real team.
Bonus: motivation for my #swimwrite ms. 🏊♀️
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