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The next two days make up (for people who aren't Australian) the last weekend of November. This is a good time to pull off a couple of crazy five or seven or ten thousand word days if you're behind.
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The next two days make up (for people who aren't Australian) the last weekend of November. This is a good time to pull off a couple of crazy five or seven or ten thousand word days if you're behind.
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Do you need talent to make it as a writer? Oh, certainly. Talent alone isn't enough, though. Good writing needs lots and lots of practice.
I haven't practiced nearly enough this year. I know I will always be able to crank out a story. I also know...
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Well, good and bad news.
Bad News: I lost a 1kmonth gig so will have to do something to replace that income. Shouldn't be difficult.
Good News:
Really Long Link will be back up in a couple days with a TON of new info and more pages added...
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VANISHED
No. 4 in the Greywalker Series
Kat Richardson 2009
This series first came out in paperback and has proved such a success the publishers are now issuing it in hardback as well! Harper Blaine is a Greywalker a psychic with a...
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Just a brief hello, good morning... We are entering into the final few days of Nano and I will talk more about that in another post later, but for now:
I wanted to take this time to talk to you guys. I want to ask you: has Nanowrimo changed your...
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First drafts are a wonderful thing. Until you start editing them - then you might find that they're not so wonderful after all.
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An Incomplete Revenge
Jacqueline Winspear
Maisie Dobbs 5
Every year the city folk and travellers come to the hop fields ... especially during the Depression ... to enjoy some fresh country air and supplement their meagre incomes.
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You know, the final pep talk from Chris Baty arriving in my inbox always makes me kind of sad. I mean, I'm already depressed about whatever else is wrong with my life and the anniversary of my dad's death, but the end of Nanowrimo brings me just as...
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He sat in the same spot every day, dilingently, the very antithesis of a lazy beggar, stretching his hand out imploringly, yet without obsequiousness. Are we not all flowers in the wilderness, begging bees to pollinate? A man down on his luck is...
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I finished my NaNo novel. In the last scene, I've planted the seed for a new one. Maybe it will have to wait until next November, maybe I'll get round to writing it before that.
Tonight, I relax. Tomorrow, I begin the rewrites of last year's...
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We are coming to the end of Nanowrimo, of November, and hopefully of our novels. It's been for many a rough November-part of a rough year-and thus it has been difficult to keep ourselves writing through the hard times.
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So what makes the human hand pick up a paint brush? Inspiration, desperation, ignorance of the enormity of the task, lack of humility or a childlike love of splashing colours around. Surely all of the above and more.
I had endured a hellish...
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It was my birthhour the other Sunday. And my birthminute. At about 8:20pm on Sunday the 8th of November, I turned 250 000. That's right, I've been alive for over 250 000 hours. Coincidentally, at the same moment, I turned 15 000 000 minutes old....
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50019 words, and I've just written "The End". Another first draft to revise...
I'm glad I've finished the story, but I'm not ecstatic. Maybe I don't have to be over the moon about finishing another story, though. I've done it often enough now to...
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Today is the Tuesday when the Nanowrimo team is trying to raise $100, 000 dollars. So, just some encouragement and please-type stuff.
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I honestly can't believe how much I'm struggling this November in terms of my writing. I think that just going to school is a big part of that.
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Fictional dialogue in first drafts are usually boring. Most of the time. At least in my first drafts. That's why I take Elisabeth Bowen's Seven Rules for Dialogue to heart when I edit.
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I guess this song sums up some of the ways I felt, towards the end of our relationship...
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This is kind of a long scene for an excerpt, but I can't just give you guys part of the scene, because that would not be very cool of me.
Dreaming of Eternia
I was in a black place. The world around me was black. There was no colour, no light,...
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