Nano and The Writing Process.

[misslj_author]

Once again, I am doing Nano. I find the Nano experience to be particularly helpful as I am, I'm ashamed to admit, a procrastinator. The spirit and camaraderie of Nano and the word count updates on a daily basis do help me stay focused and work. This year, I have come up with a daily routine that I think might actually be the one. That is to say,

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[jana_denardo]

sounds like you got a good system going here.

[misslj_author]

It works really well. :)

[captlychee]

By a strange coincience I was listening to music yesterday as I rattled off 2005 words in the ol' NaNo, but then got sidetracked going through the stupid process of sorting out all the songs on Media Player. Why don't they just let you put songs in a given folder and play that? There seems to be no way to otrder the songs logically so you can then find them to put them on a playlist.

This may seem a weird divergence into the horrors of Media Player but I may just throw it in the novel for the hell of it.

[misslj_author]

Ahh, I use VLC Player, which is free and smaller sized, if I'm listening on the computer and if I'm putting music on my iPod, then I use CopyTrans. VLC does let you play a folder of songs or playlist, or what have you. 'Select directory,' choose the folder, ta-da!