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not quite NaNoWriMo
Nov. 2nd, 2017 12:02 amI'm aiming for 50,000 words this November. Not original writing. Typing up some longhand work. Inaugurated with 800.
Speedily a tale is spun, with less speed a deed is done -- as the Russian fairy tales put it -- but that was for oral tales.
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remembering. . .
Jul. 16th, 2012 10:19 pmSome writers write individual scenes from their works in non-chronological order. I don't.
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philosophical observations about outlines
Apr. 24th, 2012 09:48 pmAh, the advantages and disadvantages of outlining by hand -- especially when you don't write immediately when it's done.
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transitions and handwriting scenes
Dec. 9th, 2011 12:01 amChanging my longhand writing from writing such scenes as fit my fancy to plodding along from one scene to the next in the outline (umping quite a bit in time, sometimes, but always in sequence) -- has various advantages.
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breaking points
Oct. 22nd, 2011 11:19 pmThere is one little disadvantage to lugging about long-hand writing to work on in odd gaps of time.
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reflections on writing
Oct. 13th, 2011 11:05 pmSometimes story ideas that lost their liveliness surge back to life.
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front to back
Oct. 5th, 2011 10:32 pmI started writing longhand because of a book. I had always done my outlines longhand, but I was working through writing exercises (Ursula K. LeGuin's Steering the Craft) and my big problem was devising incidents to use in them.
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drabs and dribbles
Jun. 12th, 2011 06:32 pmOne advantage about writing by hand is that you get going and write much more quickly than for a computer. Which means it can be carried out while waiting for the oil change, or the dentist appointment.
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harder by hand
Mar. 21st, 2011 12:17 amSome things are definitely harder when you are writing the story longhand. Changing the characters' names, for instance. . . .
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words by hand
Dec. 21st, 2010 01:24 pmOne thing that writing by hand makes difficult is determining how far you get in a day.
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