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My 2017 Resolutions | Quarterly Check-in #2
Read more: My 2017 Resolutions | Quarterly Check-in #2Greetings folks! Today I bring you the second of my quarterly check-ins on my 2017 Resolutions. As you may, or may not (I often don’t!), remember, I set some resolutions or goals for this year. I do it every year and every year, without fail, I forget my goals unless I keep them on a…
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My 2017 Resolutions | Quarterly Check-in #1
Read more: My 2017 Resolutions | Quarterly Check-in #1I have a horrible tendency of setting New Year’s Resolutions and then promptly forgetting about them completely until 1st January of the following year when I start setting new ones for the year ahead. Obviously that defeats the entire point of having goals to begin with, so I’ve decided to do quarterly ‘check-ins’ with my goals…
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On Giving Up [NaNoWriMo edition]
Read more: On Giving Up [NaNoWriMo edition]Sometimes in life, you have to let go. Sometimes in life, you have to accept that A Thing is categorically Not Happening. Sometimes in life, you just have to admit that you’re not going to continue doing something because trying to do it is actually making you mildly miserable along the way. Sometimes in life,…
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Beautiful Books 2016: Introduce Your Novel
Read more: Beautiful Books 2016: Introduce Your NovelWell, it’s November 1st once again… seriously, where the hell did October go? I swear I blinked and missed it! Since it is November (though I’m still finding that hard to believe), it’s that time of year again – the time when this foolish girl who was never much of a writer tries to write 50,000 words…
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Discussion | Stagnation & Slumps
Read more: Discussion | Stagnation & SlumpsWordPress reliably informs me that my last review (The Alloy of Law as it happens) was published a whole 51 days ago. That’s practically two whole months. Since that point I’ve published 12 posts which isn’t terrible, but it isn’t brilliant by any stretch of the imagination. As I look back, however, I realise that very few of…
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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…