Tag: nanowrimo 2020
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2020 Wrap Up: the Year to End All Years
Well, 2020 is over folks, though that doesn’t mean this year is going to be infinitely better than the last (don’t mean to be a Puddleglum here), and if it’s not, we can’t say “well, it’s 2020” anymore, so what are we gonna do??? What are we gonna blame it on now?? But anyway, with…
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Saturday Morning Post, Vol. 39
Another NaNoWriMo won and done and in the bag *brushes off hands*. I finished at 1 am on Thanksgiving, fueled by brownie cheesecake. If lucky, I’m halfway through the novel and intend to continue writing it through December (I had this grand plan at the beginning of NaNo that I would finish it by the…
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First Drafts That Are as Bad as Skunks Smell
“First drafts are supposed to be messy,” a famous writer once said. Or maybe a conglomerate of famous writers. Or maybe that was just the internet screaming at us. We’ve all heard this maxim before and have been like “yeah yeah, I get it, but my draft isn’t just messy it’s a dumpster fire and…
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Saturday Morning Post, Vol. 35
(just finished watching the Mandalorian and now watching the British Baking Show. It’s a good Friday night) Tomorrow is All Hallow’s Eve/Halloween/Almost NaNoWriMo. I was thinking back to waaaaay long ago, and I remember sitting on the porch during Trick-or-Treating wearing a cloak and masquerade mask writing….a blog (which is very Bernadette of me. I…
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Introducing NaNoWriMo 2020 (let’s hope it’s not as bad as the rest of the year)
IT’S TIME. IT’S REALLY REALLY TIME. NaNoWriMo is coming up THIS WEEKEND. (AND The Mandalorian. We’ll just ignore election day looming in the near distance). I’m am PUMPED. Oh and it’s gonna be Halloween (almost time for me to sport my glow-in-the-dark elf years.) This will be my 5th year doing NaNoWriMo *gapes*. It’s become…
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September Wrap Up (aka NaNoWriMo is almost upon us)
IT’S OCTOBER. YAY FALL. *flings bats and leaves in the air* *catches the bats before they fall because if they fall on the ground they can’t fly up again and they die* It’s October which means pumpkins and flannels and tea and pumpkins and leather jackets and adventures and moodiness and *really should stop talking…
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Saturday Morning Post Vol. 32
Let me tell you a story about a writer endlessly wandering her neighborhood. It’s the height of the lockdown. April 59th. (Or was it March 33rd?). I feel like I remembering it being warm so it could by May 41st. But also….like I can remember when the lockdown began but not when it actually ended…
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Saturday Morning Post, Vol. 31
YO HO ME HEARTIES It is Talk Like a Pirate Day and also *drum roll* But me promise I will not be talk’in yar ear off about me voyages and the time I was marooned. NaNoWriMo is fast approaching (can you tell I’m excited because I’ve mentioned it like at least once every blog for…
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Goodbye August HULLO SEPTEMBER
Not, gonna lie, I kinda don’t want to see August go. Summer is ending??? What??? We barely got any of it!!! And also all the months were turning into mush, so it feels weird that were actually moving in fall, instead of staying in this weird stalemate which the past few months have felt like.…
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Saturday Morning Post, Vol. 20
This week I fulfilled a life long dream. (Gotten a book published? Found a portal to Middle Earth? No.) I broke into my very own house. *cue Mission Impossible theme* My sister and I went to see Jurassic Park at a drive-in this week (DINOSAURS). IT WAS GREAT. We sat in the back of my…
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