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NaNo ‘06 Lessons: Write shitty first drafts

Thursday, November 30, 2006

I knew this, intellectually. I’ve read Anne Lamott’s book Bird by Bird several times now, and this is one of her key lessons. But it wasn’t until I started working on NaNo that it really hit me how genius this is. Hell, even no less a Great American Novelist than Ernest Hemingway said, “The first [...]

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NaNo ‘06 Lessons: Introduction

Thursday, November 30, 2006

I did it. I don’t know how, exactly, but I did it. I wrote 50,000 words into my novel in a month. I won National Novel Writing Month.
That’s not as trivial as it might seem. Fifty thousand words is roughly the same length as Brave New World, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and [...]

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