Category: NaNoWriMo
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Cinquain 24/30 #npm23
One of my favorite book organizational innovations is a shelf of favorite rereads, collected in one place for convenience: Jane Austen, Barbara Pym, Nick Hornby’s book essays for The Believer, I Capture the Castle, The Brontes Went to Woolworths, May Sarton’s Journals, Laurie Colwin’s food writing. But lately, as I’ve been exploring Detroit’s used bookstores,…
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Paint Chip Poem: Playing with Poetry #playingwithpoetryNPM #sol19 2/30
This month, I’m tagging along with Christie, Margaret, Jone, Mary Lee, and other writers to play with poetry. I’ll be using haikubes, metaphor dice, magnet poetry, blackout poetry, spine poetry, found poetry, and anything else that catches my fancy, including paint chips! Lion’s Slumber Cat rests in the early morning sunSeeks warm gold in the…
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What to Eat If You Want to Be a Reader: National Poetry Writing Month
It’s National Poetry Month, and many of my favorite bloggers are shifting from Slicing to Poeming. I have decided to join them. Process Note: Today’s poem was inspired, first, by Carol’s wonderful post about how she chose her theme for April: A Reading Life. Then, I read Amy Ludwig VanDerWater’s first poem of the month,…
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Advice for Making it Through NaNoWriMo
Last year, Brittany participated in NaNoWriMo for the first time, and she’s planning to do it again this year. NaNo starts in two short weeks, and she has asked for some NaNo advice. Here goes: FINDING THE TIME You will need roughly an hour a day to write if you’re going to “win.” Some days,…
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NaNoWriMo: What Now?
On Friday, my 6th NaNoWriMo came to a close. I wrote 50,126 words in November. Over the past 6 Novembers, I have written over 300,000 words spread across 4 different projects. This year, I decided to return to the (partially finished) draft of a YA novel that I started during NaNo#2. I have worked at…
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Writing Advice from John Green’s Dad
+NaNoWriMo+Mid-Novel Blues+Zombie Camels+ One of the many things I do when I’m procrastinating/percolating on the day’s writing is search out process porn online. This doesn’t mean what you might think it means. Process porn is simply writers talking about their writing process. I have an endless appetite for process porn. Partly it’s a distraction. I…
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