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The First 10,000 Words
The problem with pantsing NaNoWriMo is that the first 10,000 words are easy. These are the words that have been building up all of October and are under high pressure by the time we release the floodgates on November 1st. They are the scenes we’ve been thinking/sketching/dreaming about and it takes very little effort to […]
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Planning for NaNoWriMo 2011
September is creeping to a close and with the dawning of October comes the Month Before NaNoWriMo™! (dramatic music) NaNoWriMo is, of course, National Novel Writing Month which has been held every November since 1999. With 200,500 participants and 37, 500 winners in 2010 (plus the folks from this year’s inaugural Camp sessions), NaNo is […]
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From Couch to 50k (or: ??? Days to NaNoWriMo)
UPDATE! Camp NaNoWriMo officially begins in July!!! It all starts with a plan… With Camp NaNoWriMo lurking in the wings, it looks like National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) might come earlier than November this year. There are still no solid dates for when we’ll be able to go play, but I’m guessing camp will open […]
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NaNoWriMo vs. NaNoWriAny?
The folks over at The Office of Letters and Light (the non-profit that runs Script Frenzy and National Novel Writing Month) have come out with a new announcement that has me doing a happy dance! What could this astoundingly astonishing amazing alliteration of an event be? Starting sometime later this year NaNo is breaking out […]
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I have forgotten the first rule of NaNo…
Everything you write is starts out as crap.. and sometimes, it gets better. But first you have to get the words on the page, even if they don’t look the way you’d like them to. This is something I have to relearn at the start of every NaNo, and apparently at the start of Novel_in_90. […]