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Skidding into the finish line: National Novel Writing Month

I didn’t think I would finish. After all, writing a novel in one month sounds incredibly hard, when I’ve been trying to do it most of my adult life. But the premise behind National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo.org) is that one will never finish a novel without a deadline.
I think they’re right. I never would [...]

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Be who you are and say what you feel, because people who mind don’t matter and people who matter don’t mind.

–Unknown
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Notes on My Silence

I have been holding to the minimum amount of posting in all my blogs these past few weeks for a simple reason: I am participating in NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month. The goal of this exercise is to produce a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. Quantity, not quality. As you can see by the [...]

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Too many people die with their music still inside them.

–Oliver Wendell Holmes

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An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

–Mahatma Ghandi
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Election Day…Finally

It’s election day here in the US, and I can’t be more relieved. For the past month, I’ve heard nothing but sniping political ads. At one point it got so bad that I decided I would rather listen to the folks at public radio ask for money, than listen to another radio ad .
Last week [...]

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Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

–Russel Lynes
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