Treading Water

Posted by mimi on Jan 16, 2007 in dish | 0 comments Time to face the music with the NaNo book. Actually, The Five Step Plan has some good bits! It also has some issues, like drive-by secondary characters, characters on green screen (all talk and action, no background and setting), motifs that drop in and out, and the usual “good God, please tell me I didn’t write that tripe.” Then again, I was coughing up as much as possible in...
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Back to the Salt Mines

Posted by mimi on Jan 2, 2007 in dish | 0 comments Okay, fun’s over. Time to write.Seriously, though, I took the month of December off to rest after NaNoWriMo. Now that the New Year is upon us, it’s time to pull out The Five Step Plan and see whether it can be revised into a salable manuscript.I emailed Paige after the win and told her I had three options: Spell check and do a quick revise on the whole mess, and send it to her raw...
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NaNoWriMo Debriefing

Posted by mimi on Dec 2, 2006 in dish | 0 comments I’ve had a day or so to come off my NaNo high, so here are some thoughts about the experience. A 50,000 word first draft in one month is not an impossible task. A 50,000 word draft in a month takes consistent output. Taking notes and thinking quite a bit about the story before starting the writing (following the NaNo rules) was very helpful. When November 1 hit, I was raring to go. Robin...
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