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Mid-NaNoWriMo Check In – Best Ever!
Hello – guess what? I’m ahead!The NaNoWriMo challenge is to write 50,000 words in 30 days. So, per day, that means 1,667 words. And the website has a bunch of badges you can win. They are just little virtual stickers, but they are motivating. One of those badges is to reach the 1,667 words every…
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NaNoWriMo is coming!
Well, I am halfway through the second draft of my science fiction work. Rewriting is easier, because most of the words are there in front of me already, and harder, because there is a lot of second guessing involved. I test different orders of scenes and name things that only had placeholders before. I have…
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Odd comments.
Let me confirm what you have probably guessed; I have not advertised this website. Practically no one knows about it yet – I have told two people how to find it, that is all. Imagine my surprise when I found a notice telling me I needed to moderate a comment. Some one had commented on…
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Index Analysis and Discoveries
Hello. Recently, I went through my index of story ideas. I judged 29 of them to be complete stories; the remaining 60+ are anything from ‘barely has a beginning’ to ‘only needs an ending.’ What surprised me was the realization (after someone pointed it out) that several of my ideas were not incomplete, only better…
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Halfway through the ’22 Summer writing challenge.
Hello again. Camp NaNoWriMo is well under way, and at the end of day one I changed my goal. I now intend to briefly summarize 50 of my story ideas to check them for completeness. And I am behind. The day before Camp, I discovered 4TheWords, which is an interesting website which brings writing and…
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Getting ready for July Camp
Hello! NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, a non-profit international organization to encourage and support all writers, and which you will read about on here fairly often) will host a virtual Summer Camp event in July, and I know what my project will be. Over the years, I have accumulated many story ideas. Some were individual…
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Hello world! Nice to meet you.
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! Edit it I shall. Hello, world, indeed! I am Victoria Sawyer, and welcome to my brand new website. For the next month or so, things should change quite a bit around here as I learn what is possible, and fine-tune…