NaNoWriMo: Time to Celebrate

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Maybe your words are on the page, all 50,000 of them.  Maybe some of them are on the page (1-49,999).  Maybe your story is still kicking around in your head.  Still, it's time to celebrate.  

Let lessons learned, new goals, and plans wait for tomorrow.  

Today, celebrate your courage.  Celebrate your words.  Celebrate your journey.  

It isn't over yet.  It's just the beginning.  

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"I hate writing.  I love having written."  Dorothy Parker

Writing Prompt Wednesday: Unexpected Spoon

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Write about things left behind.  Write about unexpected beauty.  Write about addiction. 

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"The best way to be a writer is to be a writer." Augusten Burroughs

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"You fail only if you stop writing." Ray Bradbury

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"I thought I was going nowhere.  Now I can see there was a pattern." Kate DiCamillo

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"Creating a novel means moving into the past, the hoped for, the imagined.  It is an emotional journey, fraught at times with characters who don't always do or say what a writer wishes." Jacqueline Woodson