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Daily Word Count on your desktop for NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo time! I finished a novel draft just as the clock struck midnight last year and since November is almost upon us again, I got to thinking about how I can make 2009 more successful and less painful than 2008. It’s the simple things that make a difference. Anything that distracts is bad news. Things [...]
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the difference between gray and grey

By definition, there is no difference between gray and grey, but I’ve always found it confusing when faced with the choice of which variant to insert into my writing, a problem only made more difficult as an American expat in the UK. My language is a muddy mess from both shores of the Atlantic, but, [...]
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One down

I had given myself permission to blow last night’s deadline if I needed to, but I finished the story and sent it off just before midnight. It was a good practise run, if nothing else, for the next deadline I have– the 10th. That one is far more daunting not because the requirements are any [...]
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Monday, Monday

Good morning, my bushy tailed comrades. This post is a brief one as I have several thousand words to put together and edit in the next couple of days. I really need to get this perverse deadline thing I do to myself checked out… Two deadlines, less than 48 hours till the first one is [...]
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