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The time has come to face down your NaNoPhoBia and write something! Not a 50,000 page novel, because...hello...overachieve much?

No, just...Write Something! Anything. A political protest blog. A to-do list. A letter to your aunt.

The sign-ups have started for my favorite LJ community of writers wrisomifu and you can be part of the fun. Just sign-up to write for 10 minutes a day for the month of November...and be all inspired and stuff by daily posts of writing tips and...uhm...let's say, encouragement.

SIGN-UP AT THIS LINK: http://fitofpique.livejournal.com/202395.html

And the best news of all, we don't throw you out if you manage to write 50,000 words of...we'll call it a novel. You can still be miserable about it and whine and complain to us about how very hard it was. We will congratulate you, by pelting you with virtual fruit...I mean...ahem...solidarity.

Apparently, I write descriptive passages like Charles Dickens, sex scenes like Anne Rice, and snappy dialogue like Stephanie Meyers. I could take that and roll with it, hey?

Notice which badge I took...





And I hate her books. But the thing is...they sell like bottled ice water on a hot day. So, who am I to argue with that! This could, however, explain why I am so very critical of my own writing and mentally refer to myself as a hack!

EDIT: Oh, wait! Hang on! I just did What Wild Geese Know. And I came up with Stephen King pretty steadily on the style points...but get this...for my dialogue...





Suddenly, I am polishing my fingernails on the lapel of my flannel pajamas. Look at that! I am not a hack. TA-DA! On the other hand, I do appear to be something of a populist writer, don't I? Wodehouse was writing frothy stage comedies, really. Where, I ask you, is the William Faulkner badge? Or the Trollope one? Probably reserved for MissMurchison!

What happened to Day 1? It got away from me.

Day 2 so far...lots of time on the internet...no writing as of 3:00 pm. I am wondering if I am going to sit here all day or if I intend to get some lunch anytime soon. The dog in my icon is staring at me.

Good times!