So today is the last day of NaNoWriMo. Some of you have already crossed the 50k line, some of you are close, and some of you are writing madly while knowing you won’t make that goal. The thing that all of these have in common is that you are writing and that is fantastic. Today, […]
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Over at Writing Excuses, we are posting NaNoWriMo pep talks each week. This week is mine. Mary Robinette Kowal finished her first published novel, Shades of Milk and Honey, as a NaNoWriMo project, and she’s here to offer some words of encouragement to those of you currently participating in November’s most authorial of pursuits. You
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Are you doing NaNoWriMo this year? Here, Brandon has a pep talk for you over at Writing Excuses. I’m just past the 17,000 word mark myself and deep into Chapter 6. How are you doing? Listen to NaNoWriMo Pep-Talk from Brandon » Writing Excuses.
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15:25 My reading has been moved to the Doll Room. Irony. # 18:59 Trying to get some writing in before heading downstairs to be social. # 21:23 Starting the timer for a fifteen minute writing burst. # 21:45 433 words.Yes, I’m doing NaNo. A fragment. “The cinema had a magicker who walked the aisle swinging
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I’m making good progress, I think. I just finished Chapter 8 and am slicing through Chapter 9. Tally ho!
Okay folks, here are the first thirteen lines of my NaNo novel, Good Housekeeping. If you’d like to read the whole chapter, I’m happy to send it. Just drop me a line. Chapter 1 Grace’s cat was sitting on her face. His purr sounded as if a mixer were stirring gravel in her ear. She
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I only wrote 1746 words today, but I made several good discoveries. At one point when Grace’s daughter, Cassandra, is grousing about something she thinks “a bear like her father,” and I suddenly realized that Grace met her husband while he was an enchanted bear. I don’t know if it will continue to make sense