Tag: novel writing
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November 01, 2008 10:52 PM EDT --
Yes, I actually did it. Even though I have never written anything longer than 3,800 words up until now, I have taken the plunge. It started today and I logged 2,513 words. . . .
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May 10, 2008 12:29 PM EDT --
This was the prompt given in a creative writing class I sat in on last summer:
Describe your character's relationship with either their mother or their father; write in the third person - using . . .
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November 15, 2009 01:34 PM EST --
Any novelists out there slugging it out in National Novel Writing Month 2009? I'm forging ahead with 40,000 words down and only 10,000 to go. Who else is out there and how are you doing?
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October 08, 2007 09:46 AM EDT --
Yes it is.
NaNoWriMo is a month long novel writing marathon. Get your 50,000 words down on paper in 30 days and... become a NaNo winner! Chris Baty and company can be found at this link:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/ . . .
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November 01, 2007 04:09 AM EDT --
So my first day and NaNoWriMo showed me just how "fixed" my computer is. I got somewhere over 100 words. They were crappy words admittedly, but the start of a novel often is strained (That's . . .
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November 11, 2009 09:24 AM EST --
I write science fiction, so world-building is a huge part of writing for me. In science fiction, the world of the characters--the society and technology they are surrounded by is often almost as . . .
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November 16, 2007 05:02 PM EST --
I don't have a lot of time to Gather. I have not been commenting much but I have tried to pop in where and when I can. I'm currently just over 25,000 words on my NaNoWriMo novel . . .
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November 20, 2009 12:55 PM EST --
I forgot to take screenies of my progress on day 17 and 18, but I did screenie my progress report which shows my word counts, so it's all good.
So! Day 17 and 18 came and went with little difficulty. . . .
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October 29, 2008 12:16 PM EDT --
Zette is offering her FREE e-book again this year. Below is her forum post, where you can get the book and what it contains. ENJOY!
Once again this year, I'm offering a copy of a book that . . .
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November 17, 2009 07:03 AM EST --
When the month started, I had hoped to have “won” NaNoWriMo by about halfway through the month. Yes, that was an optimistic goal, since that would require 50,000 words. However, . . .
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November 02, 2007 02:35 PM EDT --
On Saturday night (well, technically, on Sunday morning), we "fall back" and gain an hour of time. This year, instead of trying to sleep in a while longer, let's devote that hour to . . .
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May 21, 2008 09:41 AM EDT --
These are a very tiny part of my vampire romance. This part is about how Julian dfeels when he drinks blood.
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Quit drinking blood.
A voice. . . .
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January 02, 2009 09:23 AM EST --
By Karen Harrington, novelist
Don't write down a goal - If you write down your goals, you run the risk of accomplishing them. By not writing down your goals or sketching . . .
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November 02, 2009 05:31 PM EST --
Well, it’s now rapidly moving toward the end of the second day of NaNoWriMo. So far, I have logged 2,335 words; however, I have plans to sit down and do a bit more typing this evening. . . .
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August 24, 2007 09:22 AM EDT --
I just did yet another rewrite and I need some practical opinions and critiques. I've been burned before by people who are just plain mean, so please, constructive criticism? I can take that, no problem, . . .
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September 08, 2009 08:31 PM EDT --
Okay, here's the big question of the day....someone out there in Gather land, Please...please....answer this question. I'm really down on my knees here begging. (too bad I can't send you a picture -- . . .
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April 21, 2009 04:00 PM EDT --
This past weekend I went to the three and a half day High Tension Writing Workshop by Donald Maass, a literary agent and author of Writing The Breakout Novel. I'm still kind of processing . . .
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November 21, 2009 08:37 AM EST --
I am a firm beliver in the power of positive thinking and reinforcement. This concept is most felt in my life since my joining the Christian faith. If you speak it shall be true! Of course that makes . . .
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November 11, 2007 01:42 AM EST --
Day nine brought very little progress. I'm getting so close to the fun stuff to write and now I have no time to write it arg!
Tomorrow I don't forsee a lot of time to write, so I hope I don't . . .
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November 09, 2008 01:50 PM EST --
Day eight saw some decent writing progress as inner critic still refused to go away. Why he won't go on that Hawaian vacation I've been dangling in front of his/her nose is beyond me.
After . . .
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