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|    Brenda Clough to Dirk van den Boom    |
|    Re: Getting old and knowing better somet    |
|    09 Nov 14 20:53:07    |
      From: BrendaWriter@yahoo.com              On 11/9/2014 5:36 AM, Dirk van den Boom wrote:       > Am 09.11.2014 07:42, schrieb J.Pascal:       >> So... I did nothing today, but I was thinking that I should open one       >> of my working files and plunge into an action scene that I figured out       >> comes next, pulls my people into the fray in a way they can't avoid       >> because I'd been trying to figure out why they would start hunting       >> monsters instead of just go home. The "but why me?" question seems to       >> be an important one and "because the author wants you to" might be the       >> real answer but there has to be a plot answer too, so, I'd *found* the       >> plot answer...       >>       >> But I'm finding it hard to write. Same-old dumb pre-emptive internal       >> editor, I suppose, trying to get it perfectly right before putting a       >> word on the page.       >>       >> In any case... anyone doing NANOWRIMO? Getting your word counts?       >       >       > My life is a NANOWRIMO. I don't need that kind of encouragement.              Me neither. I calculate that I wrote 150K in fiction last year, and 150K       the year before. This year I am at 250K, and it is November.              Brenda                     --       My latest novel SPEAK TO OUR DESIRES is available exclusively from Book       View Cafe.       http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Brenda-Clough/Novels/Speak       to-Our-Desires-Chapter-01              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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