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NaNoWriMo – Day 6

So, we’re on Day 6 of NaNoWriMo, I have four first chapters and only one of them has stuck.  I could add those words to my word count (it would only bump me up a couple of thousand words) but since I’ve tried this story different ways, it kind of feels like cheating. I did [...]

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NaNoWriMo 2011

So, NaNo 2011 is looming, I have already ditched one carefully planned out idea in favour of another.  The first idea was a simple ghost story, your standard white lady tale that hits every cliche in the book.  The second one is more along the lines of Woods, a novel in which a bunch of [...]

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Writing

I was feeling a little smug that I had finished the first draft of Star 1, and Star 2 has got a very wordy head-start.  Then I re-read the first couple of chapters of Star 2 and it all came crashing down.  Genius that I am, I had the book start with a Christmas party, [...]

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2010 Read: New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer Started: 15th December 2009 (yes I know, I didn’t start it in 2010, but I will be reading most of it in 2010) Finished: Summary: I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper and jerked it under the tape. ‘Shoot,’ I muttered when the paper sliced my finger. [...]

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