November 2007
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Reading Round Up
In the midst of NaNoWriMo, I’m still (barely) trying to keep up my reading, which - of course - is one of the reasons I write.
I fell in love with Wayne Koestenbaum’s direct style in Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes and could not wait for Hotel Theory. I’ll admit it was a bit heady for me since I have been concentrating mostly on other things as of late; but, there were so many...
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Week 3 (NaNoWriMo)
So I have skipped an update of Week 2 for no particular reason. Here is a post I started to write about a week ago:
A little bit of burn out. I wrote thousands of words over the weekend. I’m trying - quite unsuccessfully - to keep up that pace tonight. Maybe not thousands, but maybe a thousand would be nice. But I am tired. I am tired of speech and action…
But now I am worse off. I...
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Week 1 (NaNoWriMo)
This is my very first try at a novel and it’s as if I forgotten how a novel works. I try to think of all of the novels I have ever read and it’s as though they have vanished from my memory.
I’m still plugging away but the word count is very low. I’ve got a lot of catching up to do. I’m not quite sure why I’m writing this post - could it be procrastination?