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Writers: Are You Doing the National Writing Month Challenge?

Posted by on Oct 7, 2009 in random words | 1 comment

Tweet National Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)begins November 1st. If you haven’t signed up, do it now: http://www.nanowrimo.org/user/register For those who haven’t heard of it, NaNoWriMo challenges Writers to write 50,000 words by the end of the month. One thing that I like is that they emphasize that it doesn’t have to be a perfect 50,000-word novel, but you just have to reach that goal.  It’s good for those people, like me, who...

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Write 1,000 Words a Day, No Matter What

Posted by on Aug 18, 2009 in random words | 5 comments

Tweet   They say that it takes 21 days to form a habit.  Therefore, one of my top-five goals for the month of August is to write 1,000 words a day.  This number includes daily blogs, journal entries, and fictional book.  It doesn’t matter what is going on that day, I write.  Even if I feel like writer’s block is not allowing me to get any words on the paper (yes, I am old school), I go exercise or find a...

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