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Casey’s Literary Rants

9 November 2011 Casey 0

In which I rant about NaNoWriMo Ah, November. By now most of the leaves have fallen off the trees; the frigid temperatures are here to stay and tons of people are hunched over laptops and computers, trying to write a 50,000 word novel in a single month. Wait…a 50,000 word novel in a […]

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Ziggy Revisited

8 October 2009 Jesse 3

Just for the record, I WAS finished with the first draft. Honest. I wrote the rough draft of The Autobiography of Ziggy Swift for NaNoWriMo last year, chopped off two sections, rewrote the entire thing and was going to call it good. I just had a small list of things […]

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The Autobiography of Ziggy Swift – Excerpt 3

23 November 2008 Jackie 0

This one comes from Ziggy’s interview with the Cobbwocket brothers for a job as a Swarzrok, which was a gnomish word that he didn’t understand. “So you want me to fly this thing?” I asked, still trying to wrap my head around how essentially a boat tied to a large […]

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The Autobiography of Ziggy Swift – Excerpt 2

13 November 2008 Jackie 0

Jesse has given me permission to cross-post his two excerpts for his NaNoWriMo novel, The Autobiography of Ziggy Swift.  Here’s the second excerpt… Andy was dumbfounded that I was stupid enough to pour bricklayers mud into a trough and then take a bath in it. I wheezed the word ’soap’ […]

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The Autobiography of Ziggy Swift – Excerpt 1

10 November 2008 Jackie 1

Jesse has given me permission to cross-post his two excerpts for his NaNoWriMo novel, The Autobiography of Ziggy Swift.  As of right now, he’s at 51,315 words and he’s only written about 1/3 of it. Kibbel clamped his hands over his eyes and trembled. In the distance the wagon creaked […]

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NaNoWriMo – 25,000 words down

5 November 2008 Jesse 7

Two weeks before November, my manager told me I had to schedule the rest of my time off for the year – they needed to know to schedule projects around it. When I sat down to calculate which days to take off, I found I had a lot of time […]

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Preparing for NaNoWriMo: Improving my Abilities.

19 October 2008 Jesse 4

So Jackie tells me that several authors have stumbled across her site, and I’d like to take a moment to abuse my position of minor power and ask for their thoughts. While you may read sites like Literary Escapism, you probably do it in the context of an author following […]

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How I Prepare for NaNoWriMo…

16 October 2008 Jesse 6

For many in the book blogosphere, the idea of NaNoWriMo isn’t a new one.  For the second year in a row, Jesse is planning on participating and he’s here today to share with us how he prepares for this month long endeavor. ——————————————– So, NaNo. A quick rundown is in […]