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Lessons Learned from NaNoWriMo 2015
I just glanced over my post I wrote last year for 2014’s lessons learned; it makes me chuckle quietly. The lessons there seem so obvious and foundational now, it seems odd there was a time I didn’t know…
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NaNoWriMo Final Week: Sparkly Fairies
The sparkly idea fairy of nowhere-land blessed me with a huge surge of inspiration and words a few days ago – and I brought my total up to 94 words under 50k. Funny enough, I didn’t…
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NaNoWriMo Update: Plagued by Inspiration, Exhausted by Time?
A problem that plagued me last year during NaNoWriMo has come back to haunt me again: the sudden, burning desire to work on another project. Last year it had more to do with my incomplete…
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NaNoWriMo Update: Learning to Edit Later
You know, there was some arrogant part of me that believed this National Novel Writing Month was going to a breeze. It’s probably the same part of me that believes I’m going to be the…
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NaNoWriMo Update: Slow and Steady
After a week of writing on a story I’ve been working on for almost a year, I can already tell this NaNoWriMo is different than the last one. I’m uncertain if that’s just the nature…