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NaNoWriMo 2012: Lessons Learned

I have just lunged over the finish line at the 50,000 word mark for NaNoWriMo.   I might get a second wind, which would result in a victory lap of more words before midnight tomorrow night (11/30, deadline for the … Continue reading

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NaNoWriMo 2012 Progress Report, Day 14

This is the weirdest writing project I’ve every undertaken.  Not because of the subject matter, or even because the goal is to write a whopping 50,000 words in 30 days.  It’s weird because I haven’t settled on a lot of … Continue reading

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NaNoWriMo Day 6: Staying Ahead of the Curve

It is Day 6 and I’m at almost 10,800 words total.  That puts me a little ahead of the average needed to arrive at 50,000 on November 30th. I’ve been gathering information from people who would have been contemporaries of … Continue reading

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NaNoWriMo Day 2 update, and Request for Help from Readers

[Ed. note:  added another question, below] Day two of the month long challenge of NaNoWriMo has been completed and I’ve written approximately 4690 words so far.  The story and characters are beginning to flesh themselves out.  It is this point in the … Continue reading

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Fair Warning: It’s NaNoWriMo Month

As mentioned in an earlier post, I’m participating in NaNoWriMo this month, starting today.  In order to keep the pace toward 50k words written during November, I have to write an average of 1,667 words per day.  I have a … Continue reading

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Cleaning out my pockets…

… in which I talk about a bunch of stuff that I’ve been thinking about but haven’t posted yet, somewhat like clearing my mental pockets before the start of a new week. NaNoWriMo… I’ve decided to do this crazy month-long … Continue reading

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