Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
A continuing series of thoughts written while waiting for the clothes to dry at B. Bubbles laundromat.
I've spent the last several weeks finishing my November NaNo, which I've given the working title "Under Burning Wood." Usually I just call it the typewriter story, It's a hundred-thousands words about a man ...
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
I started on November 1 at around 5:30am. Took a couple days off for the marathon. And have been writing every day since. (Save for a little birthday celebration last weekend.) But today, at 2:25pm, I won NaNo. It's odd to use that term, won. But I don't want ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Haven't updated on NaNo in a week or so. Tonight I hit 42,829 words, almost to the goal. I also put my main character in some pain. He walked in on a robbery and rather than back away he jumped in to stop it and got himself pretty badly beaten ...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Isn't that a thing of beauty? A Royal portable, built by the Royal Typewriter Co., Inc., of New York, sometime during the 1930s. Maybe even the 1920s. I recently took this marvel of craftsmanship to a shop for a cleaning and slight repair. There aren't many typewriter repair shops around ...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
I hit 30K tonight, another milestone of sorts. I'm probably taking this story way too slow, with a lot of set up but so far nothing much has happened. I'm this far along in the book and so far my main character hasn't even left the furniture store. I'm starting ...
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
It's the fifteenth and at 9:09pm I reached 25,000 words. The halfway mark halfway through the month! It's a momentous occasion, one for celebration. I raise my hands in the air. "Steve Holt!"
I'm a little worried, though, because I'm not thinking about this book as stopping at 50K. Though I've ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
I'm more than 20K into my NaNo and pretty happy with the way it's gone so far. I've introduced the typewriter, an Underwood portable (though I'm wondering if it shouldn't be a European typewriter of some sort). Yesterday and today I had my first interaction with the woman in the ...
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Saturday, November 8th, 2008
I'm discovering all kinds of great things about Scrivener, the writing program I discovered earlier this year (thanks to my wife and the New York Times). Since for this NaNoWriMo I have decided to use a computer instead of my usual typewriter, I'm able to keep a better log of ...
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Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Part of a continuing series of thoughts written while waiting for the clothes to dry at B. Bubbles laundromat.
Working on NaNo at the laundromat is not as easy as it seems. I'm a person who writes best in silence, without the distractions of people and things around me. I find ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
I've almost reached 10,000 words, which is right on target for where I should be at this point. Unfortunately, I've written 10,000 words but only introduced two characters and haven't even gotten to the first major plot point. It's slow going, but then, writing a novel is a bit like ...
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