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NaNoWriMo Day #16
My word count 18,634 to be on target I should have written at least 25,000 words. No it is not time to give up. Putting things in perspective I need to write 2,092 words to achieve fifty thousand words by November 30th today I wrote 2,207 words. All goals need to be evaluated every now and then. Recently I updated…
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NaNoWriMo Day #14
I am still here! I admit to having a day of writers block but that was the least of my worries! Writing is a solo sport, occasionally when I look at what other people are doing it is a distraction causes self doubt. On day 11 I did not like the direction my plot was going and apparently my characters…
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NaNoWriMo Day #8
At some point the story begins to tell itself. It is 7pm and I am on target as to word count and I know what is going to happen next. There are some who may be feeling a bit discouraged as they look at the number of words written. Because I am not as structured as some writers are it…
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NaNoWriMo Day #7
It is a meeting of the minds. After evaluating my writing so far I examined why the Elders were having such issues with what I had written. It is important to know why a group of characters need to take over and tell the story there way. It was during this gathering that I realized I had not given enough…
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NaNoWriMo Day #5
You can’t always have days that are perfect. Yesterday I completed over 1,000 words and today so far 293. I am not panicked! Late last night the Elders took over the plot; they were trying to make the book about them and not Hope; so I gave everyone a time out. This morning I had a talk with The…
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NaNoWriMo Day #3
It is not as bad as I thought! It was good that I did not force the issue yesterday and write more. I was headed towards wa-wa land and if I had decided to push myself I would have written hundreds of useless words. I wrote 2,397 words today in about the same time that it took to write 500…