NNWM
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NNWM 2015 Day 4
So I said that I would participate in NNWM this year and I am — sort of. I always like the idea of this project. This year I have a story line even. But I can;t seem to get any momentum behind it. I open a file and I sit there. I know the point is to just write, but nothing happens. I feel dried up. This feeling is interesting because I know my past hasn’t been that way. I was able to write with various degrees of ease. Right now, writing is the hardest it’s ever been for me. I know what it feels like to just have the…
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Nanowrimo wrap up
It is past the end of November, and if I had done my WordPress updates, my original post might not have gotten eaten two days ago. But such is life. And this life is trying to figure out what to do now. This was the easiest NNWM that I have ever participated in, for two reasons, I think. First, I decided to not try to create an original work, but to spend the month as a rebel and write thirty days worth of essays on thirty-ish different topics. It was definitely easier to take it in bite size pieces that had a defined edge than to dredge something out of…
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National Novel Writing Month
It’s that time! Through the course of grad school I had singularly focused on school and almost nothing else. The three years flew by, but over this summer, when it was all over, a slow trickle of former entertainments and recreation began to intrude on my consciousness again. A random tweet from @nanowrimo got my attention and reminded me that I haven’t participated in somewhere around 4 or 5 years. I am so excited to be doing it this year. I feel that I can focus on it and really get some creative habits back in my life by jump starting through NNWM. I’ve got an idea and have got…