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Apps to Help You Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
We all try a New Year’s resolution at least once. Some of us even try many at one time. (Word of advice: stick to one at a time to help achieve success.) However you roll, the New Year is a logical time to invent a new youand now you have technology on your side.
Book Review: No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to …
It’s the brand-new year, two months since the end of the novel-crunching event of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), and for all the NaNoWriMo writers participated, it is time to go through post-novel composition mode. For the writers who reached the 50,000 word count goal this year, congratulations. For those who didn’t, now is
Lower resolutions
Slurpees Murder Ah, the heady promise of another new year! The glorious possibilities of a clean slate, the opportunity to right our wrongs from days of yore and bend the future to our will! Yes, the arrival of another Jan. 1 meant another round of New Year’s resolutions and, now that we’re five days into
The Sailors’ Log: Editor reflects on time managment and perfecting her craft
I sit here frantically writing to meet a deadline… as usual. Like most of you, I am quite susceptible to the attractions of procrastination, and it is often because of this that I sit, fingers cramping, typos multiplying in my desperate race to scratch out a few pages before the class is over. Unlike most
Writers answer challenge to produce 50000 words
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12 Days of Charitable Giving: Office of Letters and Light
Image via Wikipedia Our eleventh charitable organization is Office of Letters and Light. I’m guessing the name doesn’t ring a bell. But maybe these names will: NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and Script Frenzy. NaNoWriMo and Script Frenzy are both projects of the Office of Letters and Light, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in Oakland, California. NaNoWriMo,
30 NaNoWriMo Writing Tips & OWS Library Eviction: Top Stories of November
In October, the sad news broke that Anne McCaffrey had died and that the Occupy Wall Street library was evicted. We are collecting the major stories of each 2011 in our annual year-end roundup of publishing headlines. It’s a chance to celebrate our good news and reflect on the bad news.
Write on, write on!
I’m a recent convert to the “School of Resolutions.” As a kid, the only list I made during December was my list for Santa Claus, whom I figured wasn’t real when I realized we didn’t have a chimney at home. I tried resolutions in grade school, putting stuff like “buy stationery” on my list, which of
Writers up to the challenge
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The best book deals of the year
Post by Maddie Greene on 12/28/2011 1:00pm Books matter to me. I read over 110 of them in 2011. Since
The Comet: NaNoWriMo: The Novel Writing Challenge
“Thirty days of literary abandon!” is the headline to nanowrimo.org, a site dedicated to a certain event taking place every November, all November- and it’s the perfect description. NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, takes place every November from the 1st to the 30th, and it is what it says: a month for all of
Take up a project, make a memory
12. COVER THE INDIAN COASTLINE The apocryphal story goes that the British were trying to discover Chittagong when a storm caused them to stumble on the upriver settlement which would go on to become Calcutta. The Indian coastline: You just never know what it’s going to throw at you. Manoj Madhavan/Mint While we may think of it alternatively
NaNoWriMo: My 30, ah, 18 days of writing madness
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Vernal residents write novels and win in national contest
Now November is over and December proceeds, writers in Vernal are cracking their knuckles as they step away from their pens, pencils and keyboards. During November Vernal residents participated in National Novel Writing Month with Uintah County Library, setting forth the goal to complete a novel in one month. Out of 40 participants who signed
Portside: Think essays are bad?
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Four Cedarcrest seniors write novels in a month
Cedarcrest High School teacher Amy Blooming proudly announced the success of four of her “brave and slightly crazed creative writing students” who took up the challenge of writing a 50,000-word novel during the month of November. National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) participants Cody Paxman, DJ Bergquist, Ryan Harjo and Nik Werner were among 300,000 student
The Hawk Eye: 30 Days and Nights of Writing
Typing away on the keyboard, she watches her word count increase. One thousand words… five thousand words… ten thousand words… Her fingers race as she spills her story into the computer. With only one month to write a 50,000 word novel, she faces the challenge with determination and enthusiasm. This fall, November welcomed National Novel