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NaNoWriMo

NaNovember -Day 10

Dear America, Please do not hold elections during NaNoWriMo any more. Sincerely, Every writer in the world. ;)

NaNovember - Day 9

Well today has been weird, but only for me I bet. Yesterday I got to chat with my buddy Scott about writing, he is working on a new weird style offering for nanowrimo which is exciting. He is also a coffee shop writer as opposed to me: a couch, table ...

NaNovember - Day 8

There's a silver lining for me today. I'm hopelessly behind and I don't really want to talk about that, but I've discovered something interesting. In the past, I haven't been able to write very well in small increments. I've always needed about two hours to get into a good flow ...

NaNovember - Day 7

Whoops I got behind on blogging but it is okay because I got behind on my word count as well. Also daylight savings time and the Raleigh marathon happened today so I was trapped in my block by people who like to run too far. I have realized that I ...
NaNoWriMo

NaNovember - Day 6

Sunday sunday sunday... Well, I set out to write about 8k words over the weekend, and I didn't get that done. I did get to 4,400, which is great progress considering how stalled out I've been. Unfortunately that still leaves me with almost 45k to go and only 24 more ...