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Things done, not done, to do… the yearly reckoning

28 Thursday Nov 2019

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December, November, plans, play, projects, Short Stories, writing, writing year

Oh, look – the end of November!

The end of November, when I usually wrap up my writing year, and take stock of it. This year… well, this year things might be a wee bit different – but I’ll get there.

First, the writing year – the good and the bad of it… Continue reading →

Beside the Autumn Poets Sing

21 Thursday Nov 2019

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Emily Dickinson, November, Poetry

I’m in the mood for poetry today – so why not some Emily Dickinson? Emily is one of a surprising number of poets in my literary pantheon… and I call it surprising because I don’t write poetry, unless it is by accident. Then again, I read it, and I’ve always wished I knew how apply to prose the compact effectiveness of it… Continue reading →

Something Else

01 Monday Oct 2018

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NaNoWriMo, November, second drat, writing

And lo and behold! This year November doesn’t take me by surprise – at least, not entirely. This is the time of the year when, as a rule, I discover that oh, there is such a thing as a November, and other, wiser people set down to write first drafts, while I bemoan my inability to do the same, and end up doing… something else.

Well, you know what?

No sudden discoveries, this year – and no bemoaning. Just the something else. I have this play I’m writing on spec… well, I’ve hinted at it a few times with Nina, and she still has to veto the idea, so perhaps, rather than entirely on spec, I’m writing it on some hope. Anyway, I have a completed first draft, and half a notebook’s worth of notes for a second… Continue reading →

And Here November Cometh

02 Thursday Nov 2017

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NaNoWriMo, NaPlWriMo, November, playwriting, writing

November?

Dear me, how can it be November again? And yes, I know it always catches me unaware, and every year I behave as though I’d never seen a November before…

“Oh, look – a November! I’d heard about these, but I wasn’t even sure they truly existed. And yet here it is… (pokes) How very bizarre!” Continue reading →

November Reckoning

29 Tuesday Nov 2016

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drafts, NaNoWriMo, November, writing

sn4wrimo16Well well well – would you believe it? But weeks do fly, don’t they? A heartbeat ago it was october, and now it’s so very nearly the end of November that it makes no difference. So it would seem that it’s reckoning time: how did SN4WriMo go?

Let us say, well enough.

One the one hand, this fourth draft was meant mostly as an effort to make the language smoother – and that I finished with a good week to spare. Continue reading →

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 →

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