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Writing: NaNoWriMo 2011 Day 26: Stalled for cause

[10136] I have failed at NaNoWriMo 2011, yet as harsh as that might sound, I consider such a failure a great success. Why celebrate failure? Because sometimes we have to fail to learn to succeed. For me, this year was an attempt to explore the process of writing rather than to write. What I discovered […] Continue reading

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Writing: NaNoWriMo 2011 Day 16: Hump day after Halfway day

[10349] Writing has to be one of the most agonizing undertakings anyone can set his mind to, especially since so many people do not consider it a “real” job. That real job question is important because it factors into the reason that so many talented writers find themselves writing in the wee hours of the […] Continue reading

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Writing: NaNoWriMo 2011 Day 8: A week in

[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

[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

[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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