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Tag: NaNoWriMo 2011

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NaNoWriMo – Day 22 – Word count: 2200 Total: 31,785

November 22, 2011 Vanessa Shields

Thirty thousand, I adore you. Forty thousand, I implore you - come soon. Fifty thousand...adore, implore...so many more....words. My characters...all they want to do is fool around. What do I do? I have to let them. But where? Where do they go? Ahhh, teenage dilemas.... And still more fires. I know. I know. What the… Continue reading NaNoWriMo – Day 22 – Word count: 2200 Total: 31,785

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NaNoWriMo – Day 20 – Word Count: 3946 Total: 29,585

November 21, 2011 Vanessa Shields

I wrote like a mother cusser yesterday. I almost threw up when I did my word count this morning. Clearly, I did some serious writing. I wrote at various intervals during the day, for short chunks of time, in between laundry and raking and eating and visiting. Don't ask me how I'm managing to walk… Continue reading NaNoWriMo – Day 20 – Word Count: 3946 Total: 29,585

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NaNoWriMo Day 19 – Word Count: 487 Total: 25639

November 20, 2011 Vanessa Shields

Every word counts.But I can't deny that weekends are way slower for me than weekdays. There's just too much other stuff to do. I can't leave the laundry or the dishes or the floors...Not for a whole month! And so the challenge to fit it all in continues. I'm doing my best. Just under 500… Continue reading NaNoWriMo Day 19 – Word Count: 487 Total: 25639

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