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Posted on November 14, 2004 Written by Diane

From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty: Drug-induced hypergraphia [excessive, mania-induced writing] is not rare. (For instance, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. … [Continue reading]

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15,000 words

Posted on November 13, 2004 Written by Diane

At the moment I have 15,000 words (however MS Word calculates such). Which means a)I'm on track for my revised schedule and b)I did 3500 words today. 3500 words is (at 250 per page) 14 pages, which means that mentally I am not at top form at the … [Continue reading]

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NaNoWriMo

Posted on November 8, 2004 Written by Diane

Yeah, I'm one those utter loonies who has signed up to write a novel in 30 days in November. It's called National Novel Writing Month and you agree to write 50,000 words in 30 days. 50,000 words is not a novel (seems to be more a novella, I think), … [Continue reading]

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