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Oh, yes. There were so many adverbs. So many terrible adverbs. But only 156 occurrences of "very," which I thought I'd abused so much harder, and only about 36 each of "rather" and "quite." I guess there are still some lines that my inner editor will not cross, and one of those lines ( Read more... )

This year I'll be spending the last two days of November hammering out a final 6,000 words, as opposed to that time I vomited out 20,000 words in the same span of time. Right now I'm fighting valiantly against the urge to edit all the parts that are Really Bad and also to run through and see how many times I had a brain-splat and let my dichromatic ( Read more... )

I'm more or less back in working order now. It would seem that my mucus production facilities haven't gotten the memo yet, since I am still making with the snot, but I've gone jogging the last three days with no ill effects and am blissfully free of that muddle-headed feeling. All in all, an improvement over last year's Mono That Would Not Quit. A ( Read more... )

Still plagued. Have acquired antibiotics and am now deploying them. Will wreak bloody viscous vengeance against the agent of my infection just as soon as I figure out which of these sniffling students is to blame ( Read more... )

Okay, NaNoCollab pals, I've thrown together nine hundred words to get us started on a month of free-writing adventure. So far we have a restless necromancer heading off on a tropical vacation, but given the nature of this thing, we can just as easily slap on a "meanwhile" and go somewhere completely unrelated. This should be fun ( Read more... )

Spent the weekend ineffectually attempting to mediate a family crisis. We're better now, but I am reminded of why I will never, ever be a professional counselor ( Read more... )

I've been sick for the last few days, and calling in to work hasn't really been an option, as I've been booked solid with frantic college algebra students. Today I'm feeling better, but today, naturally, is my least busy day. At least I won't have to spend the weekend curled up in an irritated ball, snarling at passers-by, "The head-dwarves have ( Read more... )

So my 2004 NaNo difficulties were caused by a failure to outline the plot past the first 10,000 words or so (and were, uh, kinda resolved but not really by raging, semi-relevant verbosity. Twenty thousand in two days. NEVA FORGET). Then my 2005 NaNo effort died as soon as I realized that I was not going to be able to juggle studying for the GRE ( Read more... )

Poll Ah, November!

While I was online last night, I began to smell something very unpleasant wafting in from the living room. My investigation turned up my family's enormous sheltie looking very happy and pleased with herself next to an epic-sized pile of poo. Seriously, I don't drop logs that big. At least it was on the tile. After cleaning up the mess, I glanced at ( Read more... )