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NaNoWriMo Week 4 – This Fallow Ground
NaNoWriMo is the perfect time to plant something and watch it grow! This Fallow Ground CHERYL FASSETT ♦ JANUARY 21, 2015 ♦ Recently, I read an article over on WriterUnboxed about the importance of doing nothing. The author, Robin LaFevers, talked about how many times writers may look like they aren’t doing much of anything. Yet, they are subconsciously working out the …
NaNoWriMo Week 3 – Perfection is the Enemy
Perfection is the enemy of done. Truth. Little Miss Perfect CHERYL FASSETT ♦ SEPTEMBER 15, 2016 ♦ Hello, my name is Cheryl, and I am a perfectionist. We need to start an intervention group for perfectionism. Maybe they exist already. [Note to self: Google this because you need help.] I am one of those folks who let perfectionism …
NaNoWriMo Week 2 – The Monster Under the Bed
For many writers or would-be writers, writer’s block is the big scary thing under the bed. This is Your Brain on Writing CHERYL FASSETT ♦ FEBRUARY 18, 2015 ♦ Last June, an article with the same title was written by Carl Zimmer and appeared in the NY Times. It started, “A novelist scrawling away in a notebook in seclusion may not seem to …
NaNoWriMo Week 1- The Writing Brain
I am sad that life and juggling work projects has interfered with my chasing NaNoWriMo this year. But, I am still here for moral support for all the crazy writers who took the plunge. And for those of you who have never tried it… It is a roller coaster that I cannot recommend highly enough! …
How Busy Am I? (Part II)
I am busier than a one-armed paper hanger in a windstorm… Busier than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs… Busier than a mosquito in a nudist colony… Busier than a cross-eyed air-traffic controller… Busier than a one-toothed man in a corn-on-the-cob eating contest… You get the picture… The summer is rushing …
