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Oct.23.2009
November revolves around writing, and, like the Thanksgiving holiday celebrated during this month, that's something for which to be grateful.
First, it was named National Novel Writing Month by Chris Baty, who began in 1999 with 21 San Francisco Bay Area friends writing a novel in 30 days. Of the...
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Oct.06.2009
I got my computer back up and running! And guess what...A friend of mine was able to recover data from my hard drive before I reinstalled windows so I didn't lose anything important (the books I'm writing in particular)! So needless to say, I'm pretty happy!
So it's time for me to get back to...
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Oct.02.2009
Although it's still a month away, I'm bringing up the subject of November as National Novel Writing Month. If you've never joined this crazy club consider doing it this year. It's a pain with perks you will not regret. A few years ago... so I decided to do it. I was unemployed, so yes, I had...
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Oct.02.2009
(No, I don’t mean that kind of toy. Although we need those, too… but all right, that’s another blog.)
The point is, you are going to be working SO HARD for the next two months (and I hate to be the one to break it to you, but for the rest of your lives, as well…) So I really encourage you to...
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Oct.01.2009
I’m sure many here are aware that November is Nanowrimo – National Novel Writing Month. As explained at the official site here, and here and here, the goal of Nanowrimo is to bash through 50,000 words of a novel in a single month.
I could not be more supportive of this idea – it gives focus...
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Sep.03.2009
I teach in the south and we start school earlier and earlier every year it seems. Northern schools start after Labor Day, the traditional day, but we started school August 17th. The teachers were back a week and a half prior to that. I don't care that we get out the last day in May when summer is...
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Sep.01.2009
Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlived its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning.
–Gary Ryan Blair ( Mind Munchies: A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)
I spent...
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Aug.14.2009
The following is the letter I wrote to the brave group of folks who started–and yes, finished–books with me last fall. I thought it might be useful to anyone gearing up to write a book. If you want to join my group, check it out HERE.
Dear Book Writers,
Why a Frame? Why are we starting with plot...
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Jul.07.2009
I just stumbled across the NaNoWriMo thread on this website. My Inner Editor is still laughing, albeit in that sinister, Ming the Merciless sort of way. She knows I am completely in thrall to her, and I will always do her bidding, no matter what. But I must admit, doing an end run around...
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Feb.07.2009
Script Frenzy is nearly upon us, and the great minds at the Office of Letters and Light (more commonly known as NaNoWriMo) and their fearless leader, Chris Baty, have joyously flung open the doors of insanity and recklessness to script writers.
As with NaNoWriMo this past November, in which I had...
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