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No NaNoWriMo

27 Thursday Oct 2016

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fourth draft, Karavansara, NaNoWriMo, November, writing

novemberThis post on Karavansara made me jump: good heavens above, is it that time of the year again already?

And of course it is, and it will be November in a few days, and so it is even late to begin to think about doing NaNoWriMo – but the fact is that, even if I had not lost track of time and planned ahead… er. It’s always the same story: much as I like the notion of a month-long concentrated effort with an artificial but solid enough deadline, November is always about the very worst time for it. Continue reading →

Fourth Draft

04 Tuesday Oct 2016

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fourth draft, Language, non-native speaker, writing

untitled-13So, October is here, a full month has passed – and here we go.

Fourth draft, bearing in mind what I learned in Oxford. Mostly, that I need to trim the language…

“I’m not saying you make it easy for the reader,” I was told. “Just don’t make it so hard that they’ll give up.”

Sound advice. Not that I was deliberately trying to make it hard, mind you – only it seems that my grasp of what is “too hard” may need some adjusting. Also, I may have let myself be carried away with Elizabethan English. A little.

So now that’s what I’m aiming for: Elizabethan colour – just not too much.

I’ll let you know.

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