All posts tagged cheeky optimism

Finished?!

It’s a term that’s always relative, isn’t it? Being “finished” with something — especially for writers. How finished is finished? Even now, a week after I hacked, slashed, and rewrote the final chapter in my Work in Progress, I’m reluctant to say I’m finished. In one definitional sense I am (the edited, cleaned-up, polished rewrite is [...]

And NaNoWriMo is over.

I won NaNoWriMo 2009! Now all I need to do is get my winner’s t-shirt (or another, at least) and sit back, giggling over the ludicrousness of my accomplishment. Right? Well, not really. I’ll explain. The breakneck pace of my NaNoWriMo project this year was due in part to a lot of factors. It was [...]

A whirlwind of… what, exactly?

The past two weeks have been just that: an inexplicable whirlwind. A strange combination of me being far too busy and alternately bored, but mostly filled with a desire to get things done that’s really pushing me to actually do just that. For a change! Firstly, NaNoWriMo was a success. It was fun, it was [...]

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