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Writing Words - February 2008

NaNoEdMo starts Saturday

February 27th 2008 06:10

I can't believe how quickly time flies. It's March 1 on Saturday, which means NaNoEdMo has as good as begun.

NaNoEdMo is a good thing for people who need a challenge to get on with the editing. While I love that kind of pressure during NaNoWriMo, I have never had much luck with NaNoEdMo. I don't enjoy editing, but when I get down to business, I want to do a good job. I don't want to go through endless round of editing what I edited. I guess that's why I dropped out of the challenge within the first week whenever I decided to do it.

This year, I'm doing something else. I'm not going to pretend I'll make it this year. Does my 2007 novel need editing? It sure does, and I will edit it. But on my own terms, and in my own time.

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Posted By: Sonya 1 - Category: writing, NaNoWriMo, editing

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Script Frenzy now in April

February 24th 2008 20:52

Script Frenzy is for script writing what NaNoWriMo is for novel writing: A 30-day challenge which will take its participants one (or more) step(s) closer to their dream of being a script writer.

Last year, Script Frenzy took place in June, but this year it has been moved to April, which means it is approaching fast. I will not even attempt to take part in the challenge this year - I am too busy and I'm not a script writer, so I feel I couldn't motivate myself to sit down to work on a script every day after the day job. If I had more time, and if I didn't have a novel to revise, I would give it a go, though. Just imagine you could write the script to a successful movie or the next big sit com!

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Posted By: Sonya 1 - Category: writing, challenge

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NaBloPoMo every months

February 20th 2008 19:55

New rules over at NaBloPoMo: There will be a BloPoMo, or Blog Posting Month, every month from March on. That means you will have the chance to post /- 30 blog entries during the month that suits you best. November will remain the "official" NaBloPoMo, though.

They have also introduced a different theme for every month, but writing themed posts is optional. In March, the theme is going to be Lists. As I love making lists, I will definitely give it a go - broadband availability permitting, that is.

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Posted By: Sonya 1 - Category: writing, blogging, BloPoMo

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Start Writing Fiction at Open University

February 16th 2008 10:34

I do a lot of online research at work, and sometimes that leads to discovering cool writing links. The one I found the other day is too good to keep it to myself.

Open University offers a variety of learning material for free now, and there is a unit called
start writing fiction. Now I am a little past the start writing fiction stage, but I will give this class a go anyway.

In my experience, you can learn a lot from other people's mistakes, especially if you make the same mistakes yourself. For some reason, I find it much easier to find bad writing in my own texts when I found something similar in another writer's text first.

Secondly, this seems to be a good place to find other writers who really want to improve their writing skills. For me, talking about writing with like-minded people works like a charm for my creative output.

So, who else will give start writing fiction a try?

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Posted By: Sonya 1 - Category: writing, fiction

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Offline

February 5th 2008 19:48

I'm still here. Moved house, though, and as usual there are issues with the broadband.

How dare ISPs to deny me internet access. Has to be said, though, that my involuntary withdrawal from the online world has led to a significant reduction of the stack of books on my nightstand.

Hope I will be back online soon, though. Until then, remember: Writers write!

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