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              Fifteen hundred words a day apparently is a problem.
                                        
Today is November 1^st. 

And that can mean only one thing: the start of National Novel Writing Month
[1]. 

And like many [2] years [3] gone [4] past [5] I will yet again attempt to
write a novel. 

Last year (as well as years before) I really didn't have a solid idea going
into the month on what to write, so I never got very far. Part of that
problem is that I have a hard time writing fiction. While I don't lack for
ideas, I do however, lack the discipline to see these ideas through. 

I said as much to Spring [6], and she suggested an idea I can get behind: to
write a non-fiction book about a fictitious subject. 

It's certainly a better idea than writing 50,000 fictitious words [7]. 

We'll see how far I get this year. 

[1] http://www.nanowrimo.org/
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2005/11/01.3
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2004/11/01.1
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2003/11/01.1
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/11/01.1
[6] http://www.springdew.com/
[7] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2004/11/01.1

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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