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Of course the interesting thing about keeping a diary is that you have to remember what you have done that is to be a feature in your blog and keep track of the passing of time.
This is what you might call an intermittent diary as it records...
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Here's my NaNoWriMo link list with all sorts of sites I find useful when I get stuck in November.
If you have a Linkli.st account, feel free to clone it and adapt it. And if you know any good NaNo-related sites, leave a link in the comments.
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I hit fifty thousand words today, and am going to bed sitting at 52, 206 words so far. I'm aiming to write a lot more this weekend and I'm really proud of what I've accomplished so far.
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For three days, we waited.
The cave on the beach sheltered us, and on that first morning, as the sky began to lighten, I and the tribe went out on to the beach to watch.
The beach was a tiny thing. It was long, but the strip of sand was...
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I spend all afternoon writing - but not my novel. I had a deadline for one of my regular freelance gigs today.
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So I started in on Phoenix falling today and so far that novel stands at around 13, 000 words and I stand at around 45, 000 words in total. I'm pretty happy with this, considering that my goal for tomorrow was originally 42K, so I'm ahead of myself.
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1. EXT. LONDON. AFTERNOON TWENTY NINTHS OF JUNE 1916.
One camera shot of London, from the sky. There are plenty of streets. The building lined up on both side. On the streets, there were slight shadows of people, with there everyday doings. ...
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So we ran.
All of the earth looked the same, through the rain, there seemed no direction, no place to run to. The sky had darked and it seemed as if the air itself had turned to shadow. I felt as if we were cursed, created to be devoured,...
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It was hot in Perth last night, it was a humid day - the cloud hung low and made for a balmy evening. The full moon was no longer but still its potency was still lingering.
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I wrote just over 3,000 words and crossed the 10k mark today. Yay!
The first 2,000 words were easy. Then I started up Seesmic and checked my Twitter stream. Bad move. I don't spend much time on the NaNoWriMo forum because I could easily write...
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I'm officially at 30K now... so far so good... I'm looking forward to a large writing marathon. I'm hoping to hit 50K by Friday, which I should if I keep up the current pace, and then write another fifty or sixty thousand words this weekend. If I...
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I was not born, I was made.
Still, any act of creation may be called birth. Even in this state of being 'made' rather than 'born', I understood myself to be unique in the universe. In my creation came an intense knowledge of Life and the ways of...
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Inspired by my previous post or perhaps by the changing weather, for yesterday was seethingly, blissteringly HOT and to-day it is not, to-day it is refreshingly cool, cloudy and overcaste with promises of rain which so far have not been...
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Great advice for writers: Read bad stuff.
Not only is it encouraging to read bad fiction, it also is a great way to learn what you shouldn't do and improve your editing skills (handy skill post-NaNoWriMo). It's so much easier to see other...
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I decided to have a lazy Sunday when I woke up in the morning. I took a shower, fixed my hair up in a messy wet bun and put on my most comfortable old t-shirt and lounge shorts.
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The Dogs of Riga
Henning Mankell
A Kurt Wallander Book
I've started working my way through the Kurt Wallander books and have reached Hundarna i Riga. Two dead men's bodies have washed up on the shores of Sweden and forensic evidence...
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By now to be on track you should be at 3, 333 if you're aiming for 50K. If you followed my suggestion and managed to write more than that on the first, that's great.
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I've written more than 2k yesterday, and I'm currently at 4112. Not quite sure if I'm done for today yet.
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So far I'm at 10K, and I thought I'd share a little excerpt with you guys. This isn't from Phoenix Falling, because I need to do a little more prep work before I can start this, it's from a novel whose plot I adopted from last year's adopt a plot...
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Galileo's Dream
Kim Stanley Robinson has crafted a rich complex novel that at first seems to be both a historical novel about Galileo and an Sf novel about time travel but develops into something stranger and more challenging about quantum...
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