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NaNoWriMo on the Slow Track

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Catherine Austen

I posted a motivational blurb on the SCBWI Canada East website today, about slogging it through the last days of November’s novel-writing challenge. I have never actually made the NaNoWriMo journey, meaning I’ve never done a start-to-finish draft in the month of November. I’ve…

Category: writing, writing procesTags: books, Canadian writers, children's books, children's novels, creative process, discipline, fear, inspiration, motivation, nanowrimo, novels, orca book publishers, procrastination, revising, walking backward, word count, writers, writing, writing practice

Friday Fable: The Writer and the Word Limit

Posted on July 18, 2014 by Catherine Austen

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You may have heard the old story, The Crow and the Pitcher: A crow was nearly dead of thirst when he spied a pitcher of water on a picnic table just beside the dried-up river bed. He flew over and tried to take a sip…

Category: Friday Fables, short stories, writingTags: aesop's fables, creative process, critiques, editing, revising, short fiction, word count

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