Tag Archives: NaNoWriMo

NaNoFeed: bite-sized pieces, or how to eat an elephant

I make a custom of date-stamping all of my draft writing with the start time and end time. In the wake of NaNo last year, I transferred those dates to a spreadsheet and to my Google calendar. What I learned … Continue reading

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NaNoFeed: not an A-plus student

(Dateline: Sunday 4 November; posted now, to avoid colliding with Six Sentence Sunday.) So now, at a write-in, I’m banging out prose, after consulting sources. Every NaNo novel is different, and I’m realizing that this one is being written very … Continue reading

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Six Sentence Sunday, 4 November 2012 (Cleopatra’s Ironclads)

The censorious didn’t care for the rites of the god of wine, but he was the protector of the whole dynasty: the god of frenzy and change, the deity of chance. No army moved without proper rations of wine and … Continue reading

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NaNoFeed: The ship is launched!

Woke up later than I’d originally planned, so now at least I’ve put off a bit the bug that’s going around. It’s mid-afternoon and I’ve scored 1941 words according to Scrivener’s word-count. I’ve posted an excerpt here and I’m already … Continue reading

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NaNoFeed (On the Eve, Part 2): Unprepared

On the edge of the cliff now, and it’s too late to do anything but wait for the clock to tick down to midnight. Two days off from the day job, and two more days of weekend, and I’ve set … Continue reading

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NaNoFeed (On the Eve, Part 1): Music to Wreck Trains By, or the Art of the NaNo Playlist

Motorcycle–check. Cliff–check. No helmet? Drunk? Go for it. That’s the mnemonic I gave a fellow National Novel Writing Month marathoner at the Twin Cities region’s kick-off last night at Nina’s in St. Paul. It gives my Inner Adult a nervous … Continue reading

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Interview: Writing Community and National Novel Writing Month (Part 3), with Becca Patterson

Writer Becca Patterson, aka Mreauow, is one of three Municipal Liaisons for National Novel Writing Month in the Minnesota: Twin Cities Region. In this three-part interview series, she talks about writing in community in November and year round. E. P. Beaumont:  How has writing community … Continue reading

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Interview: Writing Community and National Novel Writing Month (Part 2), with Becca Patterson

Writer Becca Patterson, aka Mreauow, is one of three Municipal Liaisons for National Novel Writing Month in the Minnesota: Twin Cities Region. In Part 2, she talks about the participant-organized events that make this region particularly lively, and her own journey from participant to Municipal … Continue reading

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A fresh start for autumn: preview of coming attractions

Except for my Six Sentence Sunday excerpts, I’ve been largely absent from my own blog this summer and early autumn. Behind the scenes, I’ve been working steadily, but little of it has shown up here, for a variety of reasons. … Continue reading

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Publication announcement! and a birthday party! and the NaNoPanel!

Sunday 1 July was the first anniversary of this blog. Coincidentally, it’s also the birthday of my patron saint, George Sand. I would have done a nice thoughtful backward-glance post, except that I was caught up in the press of … Continue reading

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