Okay, now it’s really over. Last night a bunch of hardy wrimos (is there any other kind but hardy?) gathered on the mezzazine at the Armory to celebrate our victory during National Novel Writing Month. There were 167,150 participants, worldwide, and 32,173 winners. Wow!
2,427,190,537 total words were written during this year’s NaNo. Many thousands were [...]

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Remember when you were a kid, and someone read you a story? Countless stories? Didn’t you love how they all ended in the most satisfying way, with the same two bracing words?
Here it is the close of a long November and NaNoWriMo ’09, and my two daughters have won. They met their word count goals [...]

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Today, I’m talking with Molly, 9 year old wrimo.
Molly, you’re a nanowrimo veteran, having won last year. What has been your experience so far, NaNoWriMo -09? Well, sometimes I’m feeling that I can’t get up and write, but if I just write, I can get unexpected plot ideas. And I’m enjoying nano this year, even [...]

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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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