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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

One of those days

I have school tomorrow so today I had to try to do a bunch of reading and critiquing. Very time consuming. I blew off the reading for tonight so I'd have time to write. Which means I'll be reading at the gym in the morning. It went OK, I think. Then I had to break off school work to feed my son. He got soup, bacon and a toasted bagel and cream cheese. Bad mom. Behind on her school work and now this. After that, I finished the critiquing and by then it was time to read to my son. Then furious writing and I have barely time to blog about school on Tuesday. Which was totally cool because Chris Baty of nanowrimo fame came to talk to us.

Nanowrimo stands for National Novel Writing Month, which takes place in November. You commit to writing a novel of 50,000 words in 30 days. (That's 1,667 words per day, which isn't all that bad.) He was really funny and insightful about writing. So, here's some quick hits on the cool stuff he said, some just partial phrases as you'll note:

running amok in your own imagination

the human brain is a procrastination engine

your imagination will rise to the occasion.

intuition and improvisation

I wish I had time to elaborate, but as a writer who is currently working hard at letting my intuition be heard, these were important things for me to hear.

Tired. Off to bed with Freud unread.

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