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71Nanowrimo 2009 Super Success!
Every year, http://www.nanowrimo.org hosts National Novel Writing Month. It's a huge event that turns the world's loneliest art form -- novel writing -- into something like the Boston Marathon. This year over...
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84Write Your Novel From The Gut
"Ari on my knee" oil pastel 8" x 10" by Robert A. Sloan. My furry muse sheds virtual cat hairs of inspiration in your direction! People go into therapy to "get rid of their dirty laundry." Novelists wash...
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57Nanowrimo - Pacing the Marathon
Everything else you ever do to enjoy yourself starts to become almost irresistibly tempting during a writing marathon... You have plenty of time ahead of you at the start of a writing marathon like Nanowrimo...
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71Some Nanowrimo Tips
My novel's protagonists are cats. Picture this cat black rather than white and you have one of them when he grows up. Norwegian Forest Cat ACEO by Robert A. Sloan My novel, Magic in the Streets, is 4/5ths of...
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65Starting Nanowrimo
"Autumn: Leaf, Stone, Gall" in Derwent Coloursoft colored pencils on tobacco color Canson Mi-Tientes, 5" square, by Robert A. Sloan. It's here. Today is November 2, 2009. Yesterday, on November 1, National...
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76Taste vs. Flavor
"Onion," colored pencil on paper by Robert A. Sloan Food is social. Anytime I've gotten together with people that I didn't have anything in common with, the topic of the group inevitably turns to food and...
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84How to Scan a Drawing
Eye exercise in pencil by Robert A. Sloan If you start drawing and sketching, the natural thing for anyone active online is to post it online. You're proud of your latest drawings. You may want to blog them,...
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66Real Property or Unreal Property?
...I'm about as knowledgeable as my cat. But here's a cool cat photo anyway since articles look better with a picture. Robert A. Sloan I actually check PayPal policy updates. The last thing I want is for...
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77How to Make Good Decisions
Cheeky Sparrow in colored pencils on Stonehenge paper by Robert A. Sloan I had to categorize this topic and had some trouble, because I wanted to write about the actual process of decision making rather than...
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70How I Survived The Three Day Novel Contest - An Insane Writing Marathon
Miss Barbara's Lookout, watercolor by Robert A. Sloan The annual 3 Day Novel Contest is sponsored by a group of Canadian literary publishers who started it in 1977. It is complete, total insanity. It is to...
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