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Getting it back

jEN — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:40:41 +0000

I was showering earlier today (after a workout – go, me!), and before I was rinsed, I had words stitching themselves together into stuff I wanted, no, NEEDED to write down.
You should understand that writing has been a laboured and horrible thing for months. I have had no words.

Though what I was writing today was 900 words of non-fiction, it happened. I wrote. I think I’m getting it back.

(Good thing too- I might be doing NaNoWriMo again this year…)

Apparently,

jEN — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:29:46 +0000

I write like
Stephen King

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing! -- Post origin regularjen.com --

I used three paragraphs of blog text for this analysis, and I’m curious to see what one of my stories or novel draft could say by comparison. Interesting, though one can only speculate as to the accuracy of this sort of thing.

Though I am pleased with the results, yes.

UPDATE: Just tried it with a chunk of my fiction…
I still write like Stephen King.
(Perhaps I should polish up a manuscript and fire it off to some agents… )

Filling available space

jEN — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:17:56 +0000

The past few days have been heavy-going. Cutting NaNoWriMo out of my November equation has been a smart move but as with so many of the tasks and projects I take on, they grow to fill the space available to them. I’ve ramped up the painting to prepare for December and the business launch is waiting on a few technical details to slot into place. NaNoWriMo didn’t stand a chance this year.

But hey, I proved last year that I can write a novel in a month, so that still leaves me with eleven other months to choose from in any given year. (Perhaps I’ll start picking one with thirty-one days instead.) I love NaNoWriMo (and have donated to the organisation two years in a row) but although it’s encouraging to go at it with a world of other writers at the same time, writing can and should happen anytime. Like art. And I’m doing a lot of art right now. Perhaps since I’m getting ready for an event in December, art and November 2009 have become my National Art Producing Month. Too bad it doesn’t make for a snappy abbreviation… NaArProMo… NatArProMo… that one almost works.

It’s stormy and horrible with gale winds in the south of England. I told you a couple posts ago about my new lightbulbs. Freaking fantastic. And they’ve really been put to the test over the past couple of days, let me tell you.

Now, back to some art time.

NaNoNoNotThisYear

jEN — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:02:15 +0000

It’s now been a week since I typed anything for NaNoWriMo 2009 and I’m calling it off.

Between opening a business and getting ready for the art fair in December, I have to keep my focus on those two things and see them through properly. That’s why I haven’t written anything in a week… After the shop is launched (this month), then I’ll pick it up again, but not now. Too much all at once and it’s a situation I have control over.

I do have a good idea for a story and a couple thousand words written, so all is not lost. I’ll start it up again, just not likely this month.

And that’s OK.