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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   
      
      
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