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NaNoWriMo-Week 1
How’s everyone doing so far? Week one is usually the most energetic week of NaNo. Writers are still riding high on the idea of pummeling their notebooks or computer screens with word after word. We’re...
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NaNoWriMo Halfway Point
So far, I have written 42,538 words. A NaNo buddy of mine complained that two years in a row I’m showing her up in word count. She asked me if I gave my kids away. (No, but I did forget to feed them...
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NaNoWriMo-When Life Interrupts
For many writers, we have hit a major bump in the NaNo road: Thanksgiving holiday. Here in the States, this is an extra-long weekend. Kids typically are out of school from Wednesday until Monday....
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NaNoWriMo-The End is Near
Two days left. Or thereabouts depending on the time zone where you live. How is everyone doing? Finished? Still writing? Planning an all-nighter to catch up? Congratulations to everyone who finished....
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NaNoWriMo 2012 – It’s All Over
So, it’s the beginning of December and writers all over the land will be wiping their brows and breathing a huge sigh of relief, as NaNoWriMo 2012 has finished. Congratulations to LimebirdKate who was...
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NaNoWriMo Wash Up
I wasn’t going to write on Limebird about the NaNoWriMo as I thought I would be terribly over-self-congratulatory. Now I’m over the mad hysteria of victory and NaNoWriMo tis’ but a fading memory, I...
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Writing for Health
I believe in the importance of writing every day. I’ve even said just 15 minutes a day can be enough to keep the creative juices flowing. I usually write from 4-5 am. This is a time that has worked for...
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Rejection Can Be A Positive Experience
A while ago I wrote about my experience of submitting a story to a publisher for an anthology which was rejected. Despite obviously feeling a little disappointed, I was so grateful to receive specific...
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Word Counts and Little Goals
I was at a poetry reading a while ago when one of the poets said that he didn’t like being friends with novelists because all they ever talk about down the pub is word counts. A few people laughed, a...
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Nanoplans or Nanopants?
National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo 2013 starts in just over 24 hours. Every time I think about it I get a little panicky inside. I have neither an outline nor even a name for my main character...
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