From the monthly archives:

September 2005

Banned Book Week

25 September 2005

In 2005, it’s from 24th September to 1st October. And no, I don’t know why it’s 8 days long instead of 7. Someone probably wasn’t looking at a calendar or thinking. But that’s beside the point.
On their site (ALA – American Library Association), they also have a list of the100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of [...]

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I’m officially a ML for NaNoWriMo

20 September 2005

I’m officially the ML – Municipal Liaison – for Sri Lanka for NaNoWriMo. Yay!
Problem is . . . I’m probably going to be the only person in the entire country signed up. My 15-year old niece, who will be in the Maldives (the Maldives are a group of over 1000 islands and atolls off the [...]

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BIW Sep 2005 Final Totals

18 September 2005

Goal – 250 pages
Monday – 13 pagesTuesday – 9 pagesWednesday-Sunday – zilchville Total – 24 pages
Yep, I brainstormed with Fahim beforehand – had the entire plot worked out. Wore the elephant hat. Blocked anyway. What didn’t help were the constant headaches & migraines. I found out last Friday that I have cataracts, and they [...]

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What do you do about that infernal internal editor?

13 September 2005

You could have a conversation with your internal editor. Let her know that she’s still needed during editing and polishing, but right now, you want to blitz draft, and if she gets out of your way for blitz drafting, then there’s a whole lot more for her to edit later.
Another alternative – and this assumes [...]

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Progress 13 Sep 2005

13 September 2005

Goal – 250 pages
Monday – 13 pages Tuesday – 9 pages
Running total – 24 pages
Hmm. Not doing so well here. I’ve been feeling blocked, unsure of where to start or what to write. I don’t know if it’s been because I’ve been mostly editing for a few weeks, or if it’s because it’s the beginning [...]

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Progress 12 Sep 2005

12 September 2005

Goal – 250 pages
Monday – 13 pages
4 pages Morning Pages 2032 words, 9 pages Children of the Dome (starting 6548 words, 34 pages, ending 8680, 43 pages)
Not great. I didn’t sleep well last night – stressed [...]

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Er, but the official BIW goal . . .

12 September 2005

Setting the goal at an insane 250 pages.
The higher goal is for my own purposes. Um, why? Dunno. Seemed like a good idea.
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BIW begins – September 2005

12 September 2005

The goal this week is 40 pages per day for a total of 280 pages this week. Yikes!
Tomorrow, though, is a scheduled all-day power outage, so I have to make up those pages today. Or, at least, some of them.
This is going to be fun. :p
Oh yeah, and there was a spider in my writing [...]

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