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You… do you want to do write 1000 words a day? I thought you might. Let me let you in on a little secret I discovered called Copyblogger. I found the site a little over a year ago and I haven’t told too many people about it so, you’re getting in on the ground level… [...]

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My wife and I celebrated the completion of the 2nd draft of my novel last week. We went out to dinner and toasted to my small victory. Actually, calling it a small victory may not be the best choice of words, since it felt like a pretty significant victory. It was tough to stay committed [...]

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I made the Nanowrimo finish line with about 54,000 words. I’m about 3/4 of the way done with my story so I’ll keep writing into December. I plan to finish up around 70,000 words but we’ll see. Then it’s time to read what I’ve got and start editing. This was my first experience with Nanowrimo [...]

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We’ve reached the midpoint on Nanowrimo and at 18,755 words, things are coming along nicely. At this point I’m going to go for the full 50,000 words at the end of the month. However I’ll be happy to reach 30,000 words. We’ll see how it goes. I’ve got to keep writing over 2000 words a [...]

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This month is Nanowrimo which stands for National Novel Writing Month. I’ve committed to writing a 50,000 word novel. This is something I’ve wanted to do for a while now. As of today I need to write 2000 words a day to reach my goal. It’s proving to be a bit more difficult than expected [...]

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