Tag: NaNoWriMo
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National Write a Novel Month 2015
It’s National Write A Novel Month (here in the US, anyway). What does that mean to me? Well, I’m trying to write a novel anyway, but now I have a support group for the month to help keep me on track. What does that mean to you? Well, a lot of people are writing. …
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Writing habits and what I do in my off time
So, dear readers, the question arose in another setting as to what I do in my off time, and just how I recharge my mental capacitors in order to write more. This in turn, came up as a result of an offhand comment that I wrote 5800 words in four hours last weekend. It’s not…
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The conniving plotters
Plotting is an essential part of writing any story. There are a number of ways that people plot out their stories. The first one is what is sometimes called ‘discovery writing’ where the writer has, at most, a vague impression of where they want to end up and they just write wherever the story…