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Nov.10.2008 - 2:55 pm
The ghost of creative writing school past
Chapter Five almost derailed me. I started to listen to that little voice from my creative writing days at university. I was filling in some back story for one of my characters,...
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Nov.10.2008 - 2:51 pm
Dear dog, I have learned my NaNoWriMo lesson
I will never take a take an evening off and then procrastinate for a day during NaNoWrimo again. The catch up is brutal. I had to write 4849 words to catch up to what my word...
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Nov.10.2008 - 2:48 pm
I need a nanowrimo wusband--notes from Nov 6
My count is now 10,154! I've broken the 10,000 word mark! I finished Chapter Four today, and started on Chapter Five only because I needed to bump up my word count to keep up to...
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Nov.10.2008 - 2:45 pm
We have dialogue! Notes from Chapter three
Haha! We have dialogue. I wrote the scene between Sofia and George before finishing Chapter Two, and it's much stronger on character development. Yay! Characters who are actually...
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About Emily

I explore the outdoors through hiking, kayaking, cycling and bumping into things. I have to know what's around the next bend! I practice yoga on my own and one of these days I'm going to start doing fire poi. I occasionally juggle. I've been a pre-press...
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Emily’s Favorite Books

Lovely Bones, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Lolita, Pornographer's Poem, Pride and Prejudice, Logorrhea, Clockwork Orange, White Noise,...