Category Archives: NaNoWriMo

And the winner is….

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Uppity

Not me! [bows] Ah, the joys of working in online retail during the holiday season. We are down two managers this year, so guess who’s doing double-duty? And when work makes me sit at a computer for 12 hours a … Continue reading →

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9,501

Posted on November 12, 2009 by Uppity

18 days and an embarassing number of words left to go. Work is truly sucking my brain dry these days. Don’t they know I have a novel to write this month? Luckily, I took a course once in the ancient … Continue reading →

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Hell is 1,667 words a day

Posted on November 8, 2009 by Uppity

No Feed Hell today as I’m saving all my love for NaNoWriMo. NaNo commenced last Sunday and by Tuesday I was ahead on word count. That lasted all the way to Wednesday!  Since then I’ve been getting steadily further behind. … Continue reading →

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Writing as survival strategy

Posted on October 24, 2009 by Uppity

In college, I wrote fiction for my creative writing classes, but once I graduated and it was no longer a Have-to, I stopped. Since writing is as much a part of me as my kneecaps, I continued to write, but … Continue reading →

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Do you Nano?

Posted on October 9, 2009 by Uppity

Only three more weeks until Kevin dusts off his halo and dons his “I’m a lover, not a writer” t-shirt in support of my annual journey through the Sumatra-colored underworld that is National Novel Writing Month. This will be my … Continue reading →

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