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Letting a Story Simmer (Camp NaNoWriMo)
One of the things I am trying with this Camp is the idea that I need to know what I am going to write before I write it when it comes to longer works. I started out with the WiP short story Inheritance by sitting down and writing… but then I got sick and I spent a […]
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Camp NaNoWriMo: A Man, A Plan, A Canal: Panama?
April Camp NaNoWriMo starts in a week! While the urge to write a NaNo novel (or in my case novella) in palindrome is absurdly tempting… that is not the plan. The plan (thanks to the dozens of helpful suggestions in this thread over in the forums) is much more complex! You’ll remember that I mentioned […]
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Couch to 1.667k : the Camp NaNoWriMo wordcount adventure!
It’s once again time to start mulling over what sort of project I want to do for the April session of Camp NaNoWriMo! In the past I’ve done attempts at proper 50k novels, short story collections, books about writing books, and even one stab at doing an outline for the November novel (which I then tossed […]
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Camp NaNoWriMo (July) Approacheth!
Yes, it’s that time again… wordcounts once again wait in the wings to pounce on me the first! After a string of failed NaNoWriMos I’m a bit leery of this one. But I haven’t purposefully sat out a NaNo yet, so I think I’m just going to set an incredibly small goal (again) and work […]
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Camp NaNoWriMo is over and I’m Happy I lost!
Camp NaNoWriMo April 2014 session is over… and I’ve lost Camp again. I wrote 6,236 of a 10,000 word goal (where 10,000 words = 10,000 words of published eBook), which is better than some previous attempts, but still a Loss. I could have easily won by just dumping words on paper (and I was very […]
