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NaNoWriMo Update: A.D.D. Brain
As most of you know, we are pretty much past the halfway point of National Novel Writing Month and must keep on typing. It’s rather interesting for me, writing this novel that I’m not in love…
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Animal Friends and Stick-Stealing
While out on a feeding frenzy by the trees, Sari, my newest dairy goat acquisition, decided to lay her head across my shoulders while I was sitting on the ground and snuggle. It was rather heart…
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NaNoWriMo Update: Pantser, Plotter, Linear, Jumper
After spending the first almost two days of National Novel Writing Month doing pretty much nothing, I sat down at about 9 at night on the second day and wrote almost 2,000 words until about 2 in…
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Why NaNoWriMo? Some Thoughts On Stories
And, at the very least, NaNoWriMo is a way to have fun.
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Last Minute NaNoWriMo-ing
After spending the day plastering my parent’s house, I signed up for National Novel Writing Month in true last-minute form. So okay, another yay-I’m-going-to-do-NaNoWriMo post. (To be honest, I didn’t even know there was an…
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Purple Bangs
So I dyed my bangs purple. It’s another one of things I’ve been doing lately just because. It’s a little unsettling, because I’ve been a huge self-analyzer since…well…probably as long as I can remember. And now I’m doing…
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What Is It With Those Pesky Emotions
Writing was a bit off last week… Yes, again. I’ve been in a wee bit of a funk with that whole done-with-college-now-need-a-job-also-didn’t-write-for-two-months-because-I-was-in-DC thing. Coupled with personal relationship stuff that rather exploded, that was a no…
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What to Avoid with Internal Monologue
This fits in well with what I wrote recently about in regards to dialogue and info-dumping in a story.
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The Art of Less Telling More
My particular skill in writing is dialogue. Or at least one of them is. If it can be expressed by two characters conversing, most likely I will be doing it in that way. Maybe too…