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NaNoWriMo Update: Final Stretch
Alright, so this is more like an ending update vs. a week three update. But week three was good, anyway! There was a moment in the beginning where I was just skirting the line and I was afraid I was going to duck below it, but I managed to boost myself back up and keep…
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Newbie Post #10: Filters Are For Coffee, Not For Writing!
This is an important point with some great resource lists! I have the urge to run a search for these words on my novel now…
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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 with, to be continually pushing myself to keep clunking out those words. I really don’t have a problem with length…
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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 heart warming (even if it was after a half an hour of chewing cud in my ear), particularly since she’s…
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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 the morning. Then I got up the next (later) morning and wrote for a long time more until I hit…
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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 actual website you interacted on, I thought it was just something you did) It’s slightly funny, because I’m so stinkin’ close…
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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 things just because I can. No internal struggle over the why. No big identity crisis. Though, I’m probably directly contradicting myself…
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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 on the whole writing subject. What is it about emotions that really screws everything up? And how interesting is it…