Also known (by me, at least) as The Waste of Words Pep Talk.

Why a waste of words?

Because, honestly, what am I going to tell you at this point? It’s Week Three! We’re past the midway point, and now, regardless of anything I’ve written to you earlier this month, or anything I’ll say to you as the final deadline approaches, you’re either part of the process, or you’re not.

The good news is, Lawrence has a LOT of people that ARE part of the process. We have...

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Yup, it’s the end of Week 1, and the beginning of Week 2. If you’re reading this message, then I have good news for you:

You’ve won!

I know, NaNo isn’t over, and you’re probably still a long way from your 50k word goal, but ‘m still going to make the argument that you’ve already won.

You see, by this point in the process, NaNoWriMo has cut the wheat from the chaff. For good reasons or bad, many participants have given up their effort towards a NaNoNovel....

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(Disclaimer: these were originally sent out as pep talks for my region, Lawrence, KS. But my group seems to find them amusing and inspiring, so I thought I'd submit them here for other folks to read as well)

"Rockin’ the plastic like a man from the Catskills!"

Okay, it’s Day Five. Not quite a week into the process, and Lawrence is quite the active writing community this year. In fact, I’ve been putting my IT background to use to dig into the NaNo website statistics,...

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(Disclaimer: these were originally sent out as pep talks for my region, Lawrence, KS. But my group seems to find them amusing and inspiring, so I thought I'd submit them here for other folks to read as well)

Yes, that's right. A Day One Pep Talk. We're less than 24 hours into the process, and I'm sending out an email of encouragement to all the Lawrencian NaNoWriMoers.

For those of you experiencing glorious success and rapturous wordflow, you're probably asking, "Why,...

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