http://smiley.vox.com/library/posts/tags/nanoblomo/page/1/ Sad Songs on a Broken Ukelele en Vox Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:39:22 +0900 Copyright 2007 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss nanoblomo http://smiley.vox.com/library/post/and-thats-two.html?_c=feed-rss-full nobody@vox.com(Smiley) http://smiley.vox.com/library/post/and-thats-two.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://smiley.vox.com/library/post/and-thats-two.html?_c=feed-rss-full Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:39:22 +0900 <div at:enclosure="asset" at:xid="6a00c2251e70a18e1d00e398c2d4f60003" at:format="large" at:align="left" class="enclosure enclosure-left enclosure-large photo-enclosure" style="text-align: center; float: left;"> <div class="enclosure-inner" style="padding: 9px; border: 1px solid; width: px; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" > <div class="enclosure-list"> <div class="enclosure-item photo-asset last"> <div class="enclosure-image"> <a href="http://smiley.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2251e70a18e1d00e398c2d4f60003.html"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00c2251e70a18e1d00e398c2d4f60003-320pi" alt="Nanowrimo" title="Nanowrimo" /></a> </div> <div class="enclosure-meta"> <div class="enclosure-asset-name"><a href="http://smiley.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2251e70a18e1d00e398c2d4f60003.html" title="Nanowrimo">Nanowrimo</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><!-- end enclosure --> <div><a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/user/23411">Finished and verified with 90 minutes left</a> on the clock.&#160; Combined with my winning effort in 2004, this makes two books sitting on my hard drive waiting for me to do something with them.<br /><br />One thing I realized this year, and it was a real D&#39;oh! moment, was that it is much easier to whittle than to inflate.&#160; I wrote from a single POV with the intention to hit 50K words from which to carve a 35K - 40K novella.<br /><br />I think that is much more doable than my previous winning entry which is 60K and needs another 20K added to it, at a minimum.&#160; (Which is probably why I have never gone back to it.&#160; Too much work.)<br /><br />Next year, I may aim for a kids&#39; novel.&#160; (They usually run between 30K to 40K.)<br /><br />In the meantime, there&#39;s <a href="http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/eng/user/23411">ScriptFrenzy</a> again in June.&#160; And hey, I think this post means I made it through <a href="http://nablopomo.ning.com/profiles/profile/show?id=SmileyToad&amp;subSrc=sidebarSignIn&amp;prevId=SmileyToad">NaNoBloMo</a> as well.&#160; Although that remains to be verified.&#160; Maybe later.<br /></div> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://smiley.vox.com/library/post/and-thats-two.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251e70a18e1d00e398c2d0b20005?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p> nanowrimo winner scriptfrenzy toadwins! nanoblomo