Archive for November, 2008

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Well, if finishing means you won, then I did! Fifty-thousand two-hundred thirty-seven words and I’m done.
Well, the first draft is, anyway. Now I have something to work with so I’m off to make the book actually be readable.
Hope you all had great Thanksgivings!

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November may be well known for turkey and stuffing and being stuffed and shopping for Christmas, but for many writers, November means hunkering down and writing a first draft of the novel that has been knocking around their head for six months.
I love this process–it’s the one I use whenever I [...]