RhetoricVille

Well, I did it. With the support of friends and family, I wrote over 50,000 words of orginal prose fiction in a single month.
I wouldn’t exactly call it a novel, but it is a novel-length manuscript. There are some good parts. Now to figure out what to do next!
In the meantime, I am a

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Last night my wife and I had dinner in Ann Arbor with some non-novel writing folks. Nita mentioned that I was writing a novel in a month. Nobody in the group had heard of NaNoWriMo. They seemed to think it was all a little strange. That surprised me, given that we were in […]

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It went slower today. I was re-reading too much. Yes, I revised some, but only a little. Mostly added in things.
I need to stop that. Just flog the damn story ahead. Crack the whip on those huskies and get the sled moving. Kind of violent sounding, but extreme times call for extreme measures. […]

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Nanowrimo has begun! I understand that some people start writing at midnight. I waited until 7:45 am today.
I wrote a chapter of 2,928 words. It took me a full three hours, though, and I won’t always have that much time to write.

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I’ve been working up some notes for my novel, the one I am going to write next month. But I am trying not to overplan. The idea is to write a discovery draft. Fast and furious.
But it’s a good idea to have some ideas stockpiled.
This should be a perfect way for me to write a […]

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