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Tag Archives: NaNoWriMo
Total. Overachiever.
Needless to say, I am surprised. I’ve never crossed the 50k threshold this early, though to be fair, the story is far from done, as I knew it would be. Still doing my best not to look back at how … Continue reading
And of course…
So I was sort of vaguely excited that I would get to start writing earlier than, you know, the entire continent of North America this month (I always try to write a few words around midnight on October 31/November 1st … Continue reading
Is it too much to ask me to update these days?
Apparently, yes… Posting has been at the bottom of my list for several reasons (below the cut, for your reading pleasure):
Torsten and NaNoWriMo!
Check out the front page of the National Novel Writing Month site – Torsten and I are featured in the Daily NaNo Q&A in the lower left corner! The bio is still a bit incomplete because they wanted to confirm … Continue reading
Counting down to November…
That’s right, folks… it’s October already, which means it’s time to sign up for National Novel Writing Month. And this year, I yet again challenge all of my peeps who have no time and even less sleep to go on … Continue reading
What is this “real life” of which you speak?
One of the things about having a baby is that all of this literature for new parents begins to arrive at your house, and you have no idea which of it you solicited and which of it you didn’t. Furthermore, … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, being a grownup, education, education junkie, good things, language, Life, NaNoWriMo, novels, parenthood, research, sleep-impaired drivel, teaching, Torsten, travel
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Short updates
NaNoWriMo – Ridiculously, I won. I told Karen – who deserves big congrats for finishing her novel days ahead of time, btw – that I had a great story for why I wasn’t going to finish, and then somehow, magically … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, breastfeeding, family, friends, good things, hospital, labor and delivery, Life, NaNoWriMo, novels, sleep-impaired drivel, stress, Torsten, writing
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Week 39: Bump, kick, nudge, ouch, baby, don’t you want to come out yet?
38 weeks, even. Ok, so it’s 4:30 am on Sunday, but I’m still up and just about to go to bed on an enforced-bedtime-so-that-I-don’t-sleep-too-late-Monday deadline. Yeah, yeah, 4:30 am is too late by anyone’s measure, but it was 6:30 or … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, baby preparations, labor and delivery, Life, NaNoWriMo, novels, pregnancy, slacking, Thanksgiving, writing
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Lift-off… liveblogging my wordcount
Ok, so I said I’d start writing at around 4 this afternoon. It’s now almost 6:30, and between backache, hormones, emptying the dishwasher, hormones, ravenous hunger, hormones, answering a few emails, hormones hormones hormones, the distraction of the Internets, and … Continue reading
