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NaNoWriMo means Unprepared
I had plans to plan, I really did! Great glorious plans that would have turned NaNo into a ‘paint by numbers’ where all the plotting was done ahead of time. I wouldn’t spend November in a constant chase of ‘yes, but what happens next‘, I wouldn’t have to retcon anything, or add ninjas, or invoke […]
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The After Words : NaNoWriMo 2013 Plotting
I have a working title! … maybe not a good working title, but for the moment it’s beating out 2009’s When Good Is Dumb and that’s pretty much my benchmark nowadays. 😉 To go with the title I have a very rough tagline “Every ending is the beginning to someone else’s story…” a set of […]
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NaNoWriMo 2013 – Trying to Find a Story to Tell
This year, like every other (since 2005) I find myself trying out ideas for the coming NaNoWriMo (National Novel Wiriting Month) novel. Well, okay, calling the 50,000 word end result of November a ‘novel’ is stretching things a bit– but it sure is a fun rough draft! 😀 So I’m trying once again to decide […]