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Day 1, again
Posted by: javabeans on: November 1, 2009
Here we are again.
It sort of feels like Day 1 is a bit of a cheat, because I don’t have a clear-cut narrative structure in place, but since it’s the first day I have the luxury of just spitting out scenes that I know will come later. No need to organize the thoughts or write [...]
NaNoWriMo: Take two
Posted by: javabeans on: October 31, 2009
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All right. Dusting off this old blog again. (Who even still READS this? *curious*)
So last year I made it about a week before I flamed out. I was disappointed to leave the game so early, but in retrospect that was actually not so bad. I’d have loved to have finished, of course, but at least [...]
Uh, where’d November go?
Posted by: javabeans on: December 1, 2008
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Clearly I have been remiss. I’ve actually been writing since my last post, but I haven’t been keeping up with my Nanometer, and now ’tis all over. It’s okay, though, because Nano has been a good kick in the pants, if not an end in and of itself. Getting into the habit of daily writing [...]
Day 9
Posted by: javabeans on: November 9, 2008
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NaNoWriMo Days 5-9. Last year I thought about joining in Nano about a week in, but got defeatist, thinking, “Eh, I missed a quarter of the time, there’s no way I can do it.” I should have just done it (aside from the whole not-really-having-much-of-an-idea issue) because I missed a chunk of this first week [...]
Day 4
Posted by: javabeans on: November 4, 2008
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NaNoWriMo Day 4.
Funny enough, I guess I have to blame Nano’s super-slow web servers for getting an extra burst of writing done last night.
Was feeling tired and unwriterly, and decided I’d close up the ol’ Word doc for the night and start fresh in the morning. Tried to log onto the site to update [...]
Day 3
Posted by: javabeans on: November 3, 2008
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NaNoWriMo Day 3. Um, so scratch that whole socializing = work theory. Day 2 was not a great day for the word count meter, and taught me a new lesson: javabeans is physically incapable of napping. She is physically capable of sleeping the whole night through, but not short, efficient cat-napping.
Well, it’s an [...]
Day 2
Posted by: javabeans on: November 2, 2008
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NaNoWriMo Day 2. Extending the desert island metaphor, last night was the night the cold reality of island living encroached on the grandiose dreams of building a Swiss Family Robinson-style treetop paradise, when my metaphorical tropical cabana collapsed into a sad mess of twigs and brush. Hey, I ain’t no carpenter. Instead, I had to [...]
