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Thoughts from NaNo | The Perils of Pantsing
Read more: Thoughts from NaNo | The Perils of PantsingI feel as though every NaNoWriMo blog ought to include some kind of Ron Swanson gif and, since I seem to have unwittingly started some kind of pattern, I’ll somehow have to try to drop that in the middle of this summary of Week One’s progress. As the graph below visually shows, I was doing…
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Thoughts From NaNo | Quality, Quantity, and Discipline
Read more: Thoughts From NaNo | Quality, Quantity, and DisciplineMost of my writing thus far for NaNoWriMo feels a little lot like this. In many ways, the concept of quantity over quality which NaNoWriMo advocates is perfectly suited to my writing style which, you might have noticed, could be described as using far too many commas, lists of three, not-strictly-necessary descriptive asides, and words…
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Listlessness
Read more: ListlessnessListless: adjective (of a person or their manner) lacking energy or enthusiasm. e.g. “bouts of listless depression” synonyms: lethargic, enervated, lackadaisical, spiritless, unenergetic, lifeless, vigourless, lacking energy, limp, effete So… I’m particularly terrible at updating, it seems. Perhaps the prospect of writing 50,000 words next month was enough to make me consider conserving my words for…
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NaNoWriMo 2015: Yay or Nay?
Read more: NaNoWriMo 2015: Yay or Nay?Well it’s that time of year when the one question on my own lips is: Am I doing NaNoWriMo this year? I certainly want to and I certainly have the time (hello unemployed graduate life), more so than I did last year when I tried and failed after one day, but I’m just never sure I have…