Category Archives: Writing

Writing: NaNoWriMo 2011 Day 8: A week in

Posted on 8 November 2011 by dlhitzeman

[9860] A week has passed since National Novel Writing Month began, and so far, I’m behind and having to work really, really hard to make this story I’m writing work. And that’s ok. What I have discovered over the past week is that there is a lot more to writing and to my style of […] Continue reading →

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Writing: NaNoWriMo 2011 Day 3: All the King’s horses

Posted on 3 November 2011 by dlhitzeman

[6145 words] Sometimes, if you talk to enough writers, you’ll hear one of them say something about a story writing itself. In short, what they mean is that the idea they have appears to them–or they’ve worked it over enough–that it seems to spring onto the page fully formed like Athena springing from Zeus’s skull. […] Continue reading →

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Writing: NaNoWriMo 2011 Day 1: Pulling teeth

Posted on 1 November 2011 by dlhitzeman

[1442 words] One of my goals in this year’s NaNoWriMo is to explore how I create. It sounds like a lofty goal, but what I want to do is technically analyze how I create a story, and in this case I am doing so under the gun of having to develop the entire story over […] Continue reading →

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Writing: NaNoWriMoPreVu 2011 #8: Out of the frying pan and into the fire

Posted on 31 October 2011 by dlhitzeman

Here’s final installment in preparation for NaNoWriMo 2011, presented in its raw and unedited format for all to see. If you like what you read here, there is a way for you to read even more. I have decided to raise money this year for NaNoWriMo and the Office of Letters and Light to support their efforts in […] Continue reading →

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Writing: NaNoWriMoPreVu 2011 #7: By the skin of their teeth

Posted on 30 October 2011 by dlhitzeman

Here’s my seventh of eight installments in preparation for NaNoWriMo 2011, presented in its raw and unedited format for all to see. Also, I have decided to raise money this year for NaNoWriMo and the Office of Letters and Light to support their efforts in encouraging writers both young and old. So, I am asking you, my readers, […] Continue reading →

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