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:: my steam is gone: maybe I can switch to coal? ::
Dear Fictionnati ( Read more... ) -
:: rage, rage against the dying of the light ::
Once more into the fray and all that stuff. I find myself for another year attempting this craziness we call National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for the savvier. For those of you keeping track at home, this will be year five for me and the Nano, though I've approached it with differing levels of seriousness each year. (I don't like that word ( Read more... ) -
:: Dear Caffeinatrix... ::
Oh High Lady of Hot Caffeinated Bean-based Beverage Goodness, please help me to write swiftly and in deafness to my Inner E****r, evil word count smiting bitch that she is. Thanksgiving was not kind to my waist or my words, and now I am paying the price.
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:: yipes ::
Haven't updated in awhile. Have been quite behind on my novel for a few days, owing in part to Harry Potter and partly to a very distracting boyfriend who decides suddenly to skip his classes one morning and not let me get up to write. How terrible. < / sarcasm >
Haven't posted a word count in forever, so here's that:
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:: argh ::
I lost a bunch of words somehow. I guess I imagined saving them or something, because when I opened up the file today, they were gone. Fortunately, it was a pretty memorable bunch of words, so recreating it all shouldn't be too difficult, and it'll probably be better this time around anyway, but still. ARGH. I am *SO* mad. Ah well. The pen pushes ( Read more... ) -
:: better late than never ::
The following is a running notepad entry I kept while I was writing on Thursday. I never posted it but I didn't want it to go to waste because it amused me so much. So without further ado, I present ( Read more... ) -
:: a lesson in humility and patience ::
Dear Muse(s ( Read more... ) -
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Decided that I'm going to spend some time thinking about NaNo without actually working on my novel for an hour or so this afternoon. I need a pick me up. So I'm listening to the WriMo Radio podcast and sifting through the forums.
And I come across this thread about the weirdest thing on your playlist. Names omitted.
Enter Sandman by Major ( Read more... ) -
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Well, week two is evil. This week, nothing I write sounds good or make sense, my characters are all looking at me in disbelief as I string them slowly along through pages and pages of CRAP, and many/most of the things I thought this story may contain are probably going to be nowhere in sight ( Read more... )