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Camp NaNoWriMo
Hey, so, apparently November isn’t the only day to join up with pals and use word goals to kick your writer-butt in the pants. Only for Camp NaNoWriMo, you get to choose your writing goal. And you also are put into “camps” with other writers to help facilitate and make friends. Mostly I really want…
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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 them. And this was only a year ago! But perhaps it’s really less of learning something new and realizing cognitively something you…
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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 finish those 94 words until until three days later – today. This is probably because, I don’t know, the holidays. Family…
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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 novel than anything, but this year it is for a completely new idea. Well, new as in I haven’t worked…
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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 best bestselling author that ever was, no matter what reality tells me. After last year, where it was more fun…
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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 of a different story, or because I’m writing under pressure for a story that’s so dear to me (what I talked…
