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How Not to Write a Novel: April 2006
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How Not to Write a Novel. Thoughts on the fiction writing process.and on the things that impede it. Wednesday, April 05, 2006. For my new low-pressure blog not involving a novel, see ratty blue stockings. Reading, knitting and occasionally cats. Posted by kathy monahan at 12:55 PM. North Hollywood, CA. View my complete profile. Postcards From The Yellow Room. Vanessa in New York. Chicklit: for women who love words. Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders. Skip Town, Part Deux. Take Up a Hobby.
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How Not to Write a Novel: August 2005
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How Not to Write a Novel. Thoughts on the fiction writing process.and on the things that impede it. Wednesday, August 31, 2005. The stereotype of writers having cats is a venerable one. Article talks about Dickens, Poe, Walpole, Sir Walter Scott and Harriet Beecher Stowe;. Is the cat colony at the Hemingway Museum;. My personal opinion is that Jamie has grown to understand conversations about money, and is using this secret skill to torture me. "My, my," he thinks. "A wide-screen TV? I must say this blog...
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How Not to Write a Novel: January 2006
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How Not to Write a Novel. Thoughts on the fiction writing process.and on the things that impede it. Wednesday, January 18, 2006. But now that I've lived in New York for eleven years, I'm beginning to change my mind. In my grand total of two trips west since I left in 1993, I've been able to wrap my brain around the concept that California culture is its own thing, not a knockoff of something else - the stucco and the strip malls and the sprawl and the occasional sun-addled dippiness are. Most importantly...
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How Not to Write a Novel: March 2006
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How Not to Write a Novel. Thoughts on the fiction writing process.and on the things that impede it. Tuesday, March 21, 2006. So I think I'm going to have to give the novel a break for awhile. You may think, as normal people would, that my previous hiatuses of weeks at a time constituted "breaks," but that would make too much sense. This is a break of the "I am not currently writing a novel" variety. There are many factors at work here. I hope this isn't the end of. I do think it's a good idea and I do th...
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How Not to Write a Novel: October 2005
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How Not to Write a Novel. Thoughts on the fiction writing process.and on the things that impede it. Sunday, October 30, 2005. Cheat Again, Like the Saucy Redhead You Are. Well, I'm just going to give up feeling badly about swiping stuff back from my kill file, and embrace it instead as a handy resource for increasing my word count without actually having to do any work. As I said before, "I did. Oh, the redheaded part? Last Saturday, the 22nd. Fetching, isn't it? Word Count: 31,357 ( 1,157). By Sherrill ...
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How Not to Write a Novel: December 2005
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How Not to Write a Novel. Thoughts on the fiction writing process.and on the things that impede it. Friday, December 30, 2005. We recently bought a new map-of-the-world shower curtain to replace the moldy old kitty-cat one, and I was surprised to find it fostering discontent in me in an unexpected way. Bible including the boring parts, running a frame-by-frame comparison between the new. DVD and the unremastered version, sleeping without an alarm clock. Word Count: 2,736 ( 1,069). When Harry Met Sally.
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How Not to Write a Novel: November 2005
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How Not to Write a Novel. Thoughts on the fiction writing process.and on the things that impede it. Tuesday, November 29, 2005. Work in the Wrong Place. Working in my mind that when I use it I proceed at about ten words an hour. Five years into my freelance career, I'm still wondering why it's so excruciating for me to produce output when I ostensibly enjoy what I do. Word Count: 32,116 ( 0) -. Yeah, you heard me. Posted by kathy monahan at 12:32 PM. Monday, November 21, 2005. Get out of Practice. Of cou...
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How Not to Write a Novel: February 2006
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How Not to Write a Novel. Thoughts on the fiction writing process.and on the things that impede it. Friday, February 24, 2006. Skip Town, Part Deux. Got to make this quick so I'll do it in bullet points:. Leaving tomorrow for a week with Mom in sunny California. Finished the eyelash yarn corkscrew scarf and started a soy silk clapotis shawl. See you in a week. Unless you're Mom, in which case I'll see you tomorrow. Posted by kathy monahan at 4:29 PM. Friday, February 17, 2006. Dictate while I'm knitting.
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How Not to Write a Novel: September 2005
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How Not to Write a Novel. Thoughts on the fiction writing process.and on the things that impede it. Tuesday, September 27, 2005. What I find to be ironic about very active sequences is that the process of writing them is so much slower and more deliberate than just writing about two people having a conversation. The physical logistics alone take me. What does that guy do while this guy's running up the stairs? How about the girl over there? What's happening in the rest of the room? To generate first-draf...
