Comments on: My Experience as a National Novel Writing Month Participant http://dandelionsanddaydreams.com/blog/writing/my-experience-as-a-national-novel-writing-month-participant/ Experience wonder each new day Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:43:08 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sunny Daydreame http://dandelionsanddaydreams.com/blog/writing/my-experience-as-a-national-novel-writing-month-participant/comment-page-1/#comment-312 Sunny Daydreame Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:45:42 +0000 http://dandelionsanddaydreams.com/2007/11/09/my-experience-as-a-national-novel-writing-month-participant/#comment-312 Thanks for your kind comment. There is something very satisfying about writing 50,000 words in one month. I read your permission slip article. Sometimes we do have to give ourselves permission to enjoy life. Thanks for your kind comment. There is something very satisfying about writing 50,000 words in one month. I read your permission slip article. Sometimes we do have to give ourselves permission to enjoy life.

]]> By: mentalmosaic http://dandelionsanddaydreams.com/blog/writing/my-experience-as-a-national-novel-writing-month-participant/comment-page-1/#comment-303 mentalmosaic Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:09:14 +0000 http://dandelionsanddaydreams.com/2007/11/09/my-experience-as-a-national-novel-writing-month-participant/#comment-303 I enjoyed reading about your experience with NaNoWriMo. I did it for the first time this year. I went in with few expectations, but found it to be very inspirational and also liberating. When you wrote about your internal editor stepping into your draft, I could relate! It was very hard, especially in the beginning to keep my editor out. I didn't expect this, since I regularly do free-writes. Something about it being "a novel" made my editor very snoopy! I didn't end up with a novel, so much as part of a novel mixed in with a bunch of things that could be developed into short stories or who knows what else. I sure had fun, though, and felt very satisfied when I crossed the finish line. Hurray to you for quitting your job in order to write! :) Tui p.s. I found you via the Carnival of Creative Growth. I submitted an article called <a href="http://mentalmosaic.com/blog/2007/03/30/write-yourself-a-permission-slip/" rel="nofollow">"Write Yourself a Permission Slip,"</a> did you happen to see it? I enjoyed reading about your experience with NaNoWriMo. I did it for the first time this year. I went in with few expectations, but found it to be very inspirational and also liberating.

When you wrote about your internal editor stepping into your draft, I could relate! It was very hard, especially in the beginning to keep my editor out. I didn’t expect this, since I regularly do free-writes. Something about it being “a novel” made my editor very snoopy!

I didn’t end up with a novel, so much as part of a novel mixed in with a bunch of things that could be developed into short stories or who knows what else. I sure had fun, though, and felt very satisfied when I crossed the finish line.

Hurray to you for quitting your job in order to write! :)
Tui
p.s. I found you via the Carnival of Creative Growth. I submitted an article called “Write Yourself a Permission Slip,” did you happen to see it?

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