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    N.R. Brown is a part-time author\full-time book junkie, as well as a photographer, podcaster, and Grad Student at University of Maryland-College Park. She co-hosts Unleaded-Fuel for Writers, a daily podcast for writers.

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    Distraction of the week…

    Thursday, November 13th, 2008

    Visit Shockwave.com and look up “Word Vine”
    The instructions:  Place words on the vine so matched words go together, remember to connect all words on the vine.
    Basically they give you words like “tree, apple, sauce” and a vine that looks like this:  .—.—. (the dots are where you put the words).  Obviously apple goes in the [...]

    Day 8 and time for a little distraction.

    Saturday, November 8th, 2008

    First a word count update.  As of late last night, I had caught up with my personal NANO goal.  14,113 words and not a breath to spare.  The word count is not easy to keep up, but the story is spinning out of me like a  spider web…now all I need is a fly!
    The real reason [...]

    Indulging in literary abandon…

    Thursday, November 6th, 2008

    Six days in, I’m at 10,000+ words and am very proud of keeping up with my 2,000 word a day goal.

    Why must you be October!?

    Thursday, October 9th, 2008

    Every year it seems that my October isn’t the quiet time of reflection…saying goodbye to summer…preparing for winter…gearing up for NANO…and sipping a lot of apple cider with the windows open.
    No, no, no…every stinking year it becomes jam packed with every weekend spoken for and a few weekdays as well. I find myself falling behind [...]

    Coming up for…bah! No time!

    Monday, October 6th, 2008

    The excitement is building as October screams toward Halloween.  Last year at this time I was planning my trip to World Fantasy and bemoaning the fact that I was going to lose 4 days of November to traveling, although it was for a good reason…I had yet to discover my true love (aka Hawaii) or [...]

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