Week three of nanowrimo 2009, and it’s supposed to be a great ride from here on out to 50,000 words, the finish line, the whirr and rattle of the printer spitting out the winner’s certificate. Instead, I’m having the worst couple of writing days so far this month. So I’m taking some time to do [...]

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749,689,061. That’s the total NaNoWriMo 2009 word count as of 9:05 am, Pacific Time. My novel is at a very respectable 21,720. But that was week one, the week during which all that easy breezy beautiful first ten to twenty thousand words just pours out, high velocity style. (which is to say, not anything like [...]

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Weird coincidences start happening once you determine you are going to write like mad for thirty days.
Example: the first year I did NaNo, I began to flounder halfway into it. I went for a run along the Esplanade downtown, to clear my head. Running along the west side of the river, I naturally looked over [...]

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My daughter has the right idea, very dialed in with this high-velocity noveling.
She’s only 195 words into her nanowrimo novel, and already the hero/villain (to save time cutting to the chase, one character does double-duty as both good AND evil) has committed the crime, set out on a quest to find the antidote to make [...]

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Novel Influenza A, H1N1, yes, the swine flu, has blown its foul, fetid breath through our humble abode, leaving us all weak, pale, and pounds lighter, even our six-year-old, who hadn’t an ounce to spare, and now, only now, soon to be restored to our former health and vigor, and filled with the glory that [...]

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