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Dec.08.2008
On November 30 I pasted my entire Nanowrimo document in the word cout widget and zowie, 52,393 words takes a long time to highlight,baby! That's 183 pages, or part 2 of my novel, and I finished by finishing, which means the reason I went over the word count it that I wanted to finish the story,...
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Nov.30.2008
After being behind the ENTIRE month, I finished last night, almost 24 hours early. Final count - 50,224. This might have been both the most difficult and the easiest Nano I've done so far (this was number 4). Because of a huge amount of work in October, all of which I wanted to have out of the...
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Nov.27.2008
Well, it's down to the home stretch - the last four days of Nanowrimo. I suppose I should have carbo loaded LAST night. If I do it today, combined with tryptophan, I'll be napping for Nano, not writing. So, I'm on the writing athlete's diet during the closing days of this marathon - coffee,...
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Nov.23.2008
current count . . . 32,654. And it has come to my attention that although technically there are eight days left, given the pattern that has already emerged, realistically I personally have SIX days left. Well then, I better get to it, eh?
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Nov.21.2008
Well, you know that feeling you get when you've finally hit a breakthrough after running into a wall? I do, and I love that feeling. I guess I just had to be inspired to take this book to the next level. I completely rewrote the first big fight scene in my novel and I am so happy with it, wow. ...
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Nov.18.2008
You know that block that people tend to hit in week 2 of NaNo? I think I've finally been hit by it. I've barely written anything today and had to settle for just typing up some stuff in my notebook to improve my word count. My notebook is sitting there, calling to me, but I just feel so burnt...
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Nov.16.2008
Well I decided to go home this weekend and while I haven't fallen behind too much, things are really creeping up on me. I've got to keep ahead on my hand-written stuff otherwise I won't have anything to type. But if I take too long typing, I won't have time to do my stuff in the notebook. Oi. I...
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Nov.16.2008
Day 16 word count goal: 1,667 x 16 = 26,672
Current word count: 23,842
I'm plugging along doggedly on my Nano novel, trying not to get stalled out, worrying about silly things like quality. Or continuity - I'm fairly sure my main character's aunt was childless about 5,000 words ago but now...
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Aug.31.2008
I'm fully prepared to acknowledge that I'm way, way late to this party, so a lot of this is basically closing the barn door after the horse has gotten out (and won the Kentucky Derby and had grandkids and settled down to a nice relaxing retirement on a farm somewhere. That's about how late we're...
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Jun.12.2008
When writing your query letter, do not use “Dear Agent” or “To Whom It May Concern” or “Hello There” as a salutation. This portrays that you are too lazy to do the minimal research required to find out an agent's name. Not a very good first impression, and most agents will simply hit DELETE.
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