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| Today marks the official halfway point in NaNoWriMo. If you're keeping pace, that means 25,000 words. Me, I like to keep a little cushion because you never know when you're going to have a bad reaction to some homemade cough syrup. Plus, I might be done by Thanksgiving weekend. And you know what Thanksgiving means: the entire family sitting around, being all family-like playing board games and watching football. Which gives an entrepeneurial type a perfect opportunity to raid their liquor and medicine cabinets. If you're behind schedule, NaNoWriMo gives you a perfect excuse to ignore family and hunker down and pound out some words to catch up. This year, I've been successful by breaking the writing into chunks. And by rewarding myself for hitting milestones. When I wake up, I try to get 500 or 600 words done before I open my first beer. At lunchtime, I get another 500-600 more before I let myself have one bite of a bologna sandwich. That leaves a mere 800-1000 words for the night. When I write in short bursts I can do it without distractions. When I try to write in longer blocks, I find myself wasting a lot of time surfing the web, looking up the addresses of girls I once had a crush on. By getting some done during the day, I don't dread the nights with this monolithic chunk of words facing me. If you're still going, good job and keep steaming. If you're behind schedule, it's not too late to dump some extra coal in the burner and get it going.If you only have about 1,000 words written, you're the caboose! If you never entered, you're not even on the train.
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Shawn Edwards of Fox-TV 2012 is "Phenomena! The most exciting movie of the year." |
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