Tag: NaNoWriMo
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Interview | Book Reviewer, Roxanne Piskel
1. Tell a little about yourself. My name is Roxanne and I received my B.A. in English from Sierra Nevada College. I run the blog Unintentionally Brilliant, which is mostly filled with my daily meanderings, but also features book reviews. In “real life” I work as an administrative assistant for an environmental consulting firm in…
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The Holidays and Traveling Slowly…
Words for opening of the next scene came to me as I lay in bed. Fearful that i might lose them, I turned on the lamp beside my bed and wrote them by hand.
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Peaks, Valleys and Plateaus…
Between all of this I want to finish the rough draft of the novel I started writing during NaNoWriMo. Though having reached the 50,000 minimum, I still have to complete the middle and write the
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Interruptions and Writing with a Plan…
That I reached 50,000 words planted me square in the middle of my book, yes the dreaded middle. Writing the middle of a novel presents as my greatest challenge. I do not want the story to sag or the
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Winning or Is That What It’s About…
I reached the 50,000 word minimum to so-to-speak win NaNoWriMo. But I did not finish my novel. Let me repeat, I did not complete my novel. In my opinion, and estimation according to the
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Joy and Energy While Writing…
Each year I participated in an online writing class, the goal of which was to write a novel in 2 and half months. Each of the three years prior to the present I began writing a novel, duration of