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yep, I’m in.  And you know what that means.  Either I will drop off the face of the earth for a month or I will be posting here more often just to get away from the agony of 1667 words per day without feeling guilty.  Great program, by the way – check it out:  www.nanowrimo.org  [...]

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You know, I think that NaNoWriMo has changed me in a significant way. Not that by itself , but participating while I am in this place of self-evaluation – this act of making over my outside life to match my inside beliefs. I have found that I look at stuff differently. As a participant and [...]

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I talked to my father the other day.  We don’t talk often, don’t really have that much in common.  Usually its a holiday-type connection.  I don’t celebrate most of them, but he doesn’t know that.  Like I said, we don’t talk that much.  But for whatever reason, this conversation was different.  My dad was telling [...]

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It’s like being back in college. With a paper due. Tomorrow. And I’m way, way, way behind. Except that I’m not in college. There is no paper due. And I’m behind, but in a very manageable way. I’ve done this to myself. NaNoWriMo. I started it on a whim. The closest thing to fifty thousand [...]

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Channeling

I spent the weekend in NYC. Much of it was spent writing. My novel is taking some interesting twists and my characters have much more to say than I expected. Turns out that they are actually three dimensional and they want everyone to know it. Sometimes I feel like some sort of conduit – like [...]

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Being a writer

So I’m feeling a little childish today. I’ve vowed not to write one word in my novel. I’m not stuck, I know what’s going to happen next (but not the next after that), I just want to take a day off. So I’m going to sit and watch some TV. But I know what’s going [...]

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Stuff and NaNoWriMo

I have had seven things that have been hanging over my head for over a month to take care of. Things that involve other people. Today, I took care of four of them and it feels great. Hopefully, I can take care of two more today, and the last will be gravy. Problem is, I [...]

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