NaNoWriMo
December 2, 2008
- When you finish a novel, there is a major rush of exhillartation. You have climbed the mountain and as is your right you are ready to celebrate. Your mind begins to fill with dreams of publishing contracts and interviews, the book tours and the awards. You see the cover of your book quite clearly. You see your name in tall letters, your characters enshrined in the literary canon, your plot ...
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December 1, 2008
- Well, I finally managed a follow-up to my 2005 novella, Streetcop (that's STILL laying on my hard-drive somewhere :D). Yep, Hyde In Paris hit the 50k mark at 11pm Nov. 30th. Pretty good show, eh? Yup, NaNoWriMo has done a lot for me. And the publicity!I swear, you tell people you're writing about Jekyll and Hyde and suddenly they all want to read it. So, naturally, you give them a look at ...
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December 1, 2008
- First, I want to apologize if I’ve been . . . grumpy. Grumbly. Cranky. Throwing small tantrums. Complaining about being uninspired. Writing blogs about futility and a passive-aggressive Zen approach to life’s matters, large and small. It’s been a tough month. But it has also been a GLORIOUS month. Ah, perspective. Ah, the joys of looking back on the mountain over which you’ve come. The ...
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November 30, 2008
- As of 11:59PM 1st November 2008, I had 55,085 words written of this year's novel. I also had:1 head scientist caught between pleasing her bosses and listening to the fears of one of her teammates1 young scientist who saw the accident coming and couldn't warn the right people in time1 boss whose technological expertise extended to being able to tell his iPhone apart from his kids' Nintendo DS ...
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November 28, 2008
- My NaNoWriMo experience this year was the best I've ever had. I learned so much and will now be missing and craving November for a very long time.
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November 28, 2008
- I know I brag that I wrote a novel in a month last year with two babies under one-year-old, but let me tell you, that is nothing to how I’m going to brag when I drag my sorry pen across the finish line this year. Taking care of an infant (or two) is like living in a Zen Monastery compared to caring for two in the 1.5 range. This year, they talk, they walk, they assert themselves into every ...
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November 27, 2008
- I'm rather suspecting that churning out 77 thousand usable words in under twenty-five days has simply broken my brain. Last year I managed just over 50 K in 25 days and still haven't done a damn thing about editing that story (it's a goodie too) but I couldn't bring myself to take the time away from the Ellie Conway books to tweak it to submission level. This time around I know I have too, and it ...
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November 27, 2008
- ..and my blog about it got eaten by Redroom! Maybe later, gotta rest the wrists...good luck to NaNoers in the home stretch
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November 25, 2008
- I've rounded the corner and am slowly running down the home stretch. I have 8,000 words left and I can feel myself crossing the finish line.I was interviewed on a radio station out of Newark last week, regarding NaNoWriMo and you can listen to it here: http://www.DrRus.com?section=ll&id=104 Congratulations to those that have already won and for the rest of us, let's quit reading blogs and get ...
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November 24, 2008
- With the month I'm having it's kind of startling to see my NaNoWriMo story emerging. Since I feel guilty for sleeping at night, after all, that's prime writing time, I stay up and eke out another thousand words here and there. After everyone else is in bed I don't have to worry with meal prep or cleaning, I can't make noise so vacuuming is out (darn!), no one else is up to talk on the phone, ...
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