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10K away from a first draft
So I’m doing NaNo, writing a first draft in the month of November. I’ve been very dedicated, and now I just crossed the 40K mark (the goal is 50K). Ah, if only I had a dollar for every word I’ve written. As far as first drafts go, it’s not totally hideous, but it’s pretty scary. And not scary-because-I’m-writing-a-horror-manuscript. If only. I’m looking forward to edits and revisions. I love revising. I hate the first draft process. Mostly the overcoming inertia thing, but then the keep it rolling thing and just gag your inner editor. That’s hard. Really hard. Turns out I’m very, very good at being critical of my writing. For an article, say, 1200 words long, it’s easy to hold back the criticism for the first draft, and then unleash it … Read entire article »
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Partners in prose
I was going to be very clever and find something that rhymed with “crime” for the title of the post, but it’s o-dark-thirty in the morning and I couldn’t come up with anything. Alliteration will have to do. Anyhoo, I mentioned earlier I’m doing NaNo again this year. But this year, I’ve got a fabulous writing buddy to do it with me: Sir Buffalo Sushi! (Applause, applause.) We’ve got a very cool salt rock lamp that we turn on when we’re in writing mode. It starts the inner creativity juices flowing and alerts Mister and Big Fish to tiptoe past us very quietly because we’re working on our masterpieces. When this light’s a-burnin’, don’t come…uh…okay, still can’t rhyme this early. … Read entire article »
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