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NaNovember - Day 3

Spent the first part of the day doing prep for a photo shoot tomorrow and then stood in line for 2 hours to early vote. Glad that, for me at least that is over. Now I have to sit and get my words down. Not sure where everyone else is ...
NaNoWriMo

NaNoVember - Day 2

On day one I got... a few bullet points down. Day two I got about 700 words, and about another chapter worth of bullet points. I've been trying to set aside a few solid hours each day to write. Working two jobs and taking graduate classes makes that pretty hard. ...
NaNoWriMo

NaNoVember - Day 1

Random assortment of thoughts after one day of NaNo: Don’t let his cheery talk fool you, Andrew twisted my arm and harangued me into taking on NaNoWriMo, despite the fact that my November is already insane scheduling-wise. Lucky for him I am a glutton for punishment and a little bit ...

It's November!

Writers, you know what that means. NaNoWriMo time! This month, Paul and I are going to do something a little crazy, a little brave, and—I hope—a little interesting. We're both doing NaNo, and we're going to share our adventure with you all by posting once a day about how it's ...

You should try writing out of order

This is a really short post, because it's a really short and simple lesson. This weekend I did something I've always heard / known was okay, but never really believed made sense and therefore never really tried. I wrote a chapter out of order from the rest of my work ...