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this NaNo is definitely in its death throes. earlier this morning i considered (considerably) the question that was put to me yesterday as to whether i was just poo-pooing my own efforts and calling the work slop due to lack of perspective. so i pulled up last year's NaNo (which, honest injun, i have not touched since i wrote it), and gave it the ol' read-through to see whether 2005's efforts were as big a waste of effort as i felt they were at the time.

the answer is a resounding yes. last year's book is even worse than i estimated. it's quite possibly the worst thing i have ever written (and i say that with no amount of hyperbole). in fact, if at all possible, it's worse than this year's NaNo by a long shot. i recall now, saying last Christmas that there was only one scene in the whole pile of it worth saving and that's definitely still true. interestingly, that one scene (a flashback) is the basis of this year's NaNo.

what goes around comes around, i suppose.

anyway ~ i think i'll finish running through the prompt cards (still have a pile here), and when they have run out, i'll just stop, regardless of the word count. and if each prompt yields a paragraph and no more, then that's sufficient.

thank you, everyone for being so supportive! i dunna mind quitting NaNo and i'm not discouraged. i just want to make good choices about how i spend my time.

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and those of you who haven't seen gwyn_hwyfar's post today, need to check it out immediately for a severe cute overload.

this is the stuff of sad songs ~

Prayer letters go to pastor's daughter

ack ~ ! i'm totally writing a story about this.

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