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Anyone else getting the shakes? You know exactly what I'm talking about. You wake up and the first thought through your mind is, gotta write, gotta write. So you sit down and almost instinctively, you pull up your NaNoWriMo file. But then you realize that you finished it. The stories over, it's time to move on.And a part of you is completely relieved. I mean, NaNo was intense. There's

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Today's officially day eight of NanoWriMo. It's rather amazing just how fast it's moving! After today, everyone should have 13,336 words.Are you there? Have you made it? If not, don't be discouraged. The thing is, very often to we write by word count. Even though NaNo is a word count based challenged, I'm inclined to think that we shouldn't think of it solely by the numbers.Most of us when

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So yes, I'm one of the thousands who decided to make November a month to remember. I'm currently participating in NaNo. This is my second year taking the plunge and already I'm shocked at exactly how different it has been.First off, the goal of NaNo is to write 50K in exactly one month. It averages out to 1,667 a day. Easy enough right? Well for the most part, getting word count down isn't

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This is a teaser from Maggie Stiefvater's BALLAD, a novel involving homicidal faeries and kissing that's coming out October 1st.He turned towards me. For a long moment, he stood facing me. I was held, anchored to the ground – not by his music, which still called and pushed against the music already in my head and said grow rise follow – but by his strangeness. By his fingers, spread over the

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It's amazing how inspiration strikes you.Lately, I've been struggling to figure out what to write in my fiction life. I want to be published and so much of my writing has been: Is this marketable? Is this new?And while those things are definite things to consider, that shouldn't be the end all to what we, as writers, write. I was reading a friend's journal at http://www.livejournal.com and she

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When I woke up today, I was craving a hamburger. No -- not just a hamburger, a cheeseburger with so much cheese it would drip cheddar down onto the table.Have you ever had that happen? Wake up and just be craving a certain kind of food? (And no, to squash any possible speculation. I'm not preggers.)So I waited until lunchtime and fired up George - my electric grill, you do the math - and

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So far today has been relatively unproductive, writing wise. It's not like I planned for that to be the case.Actually, I planned for just the opposite.Right now, next to me, I have a list two miles long of all the things I wanted to do. I have characters to create and pieces to edit. I have brainstorming sessions to do and chapters to finish, but...but there was a Milliionaire Matchmaker

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There's always something disarming about coming home from a trip. I always feel like everything should have changed and whatever hasn't really bothers me. When I was a kid, I'd come home from camp or even spending the night at a friends and be so disappointed that the neighbor's houses were still in tact and someone didn't paint the fire station hot pink. I guess I always expected catastrophe

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I've decided to use this blog to be a little more philosophical and talk about the real issues that are plaguing my mind. I love my live journal and lj will always be my "blogging" home, but there is something to be said about the sweet anonymity of blogger. I'm also hoping to use blogger to get my writing career off the ground.I am so ready that I can taste it.These past two weeks have

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First post to test this out. I'll be spouting my words of non-wisdom soon. But for tonight, a mere hey will suffice.

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