Comments on: The writing life. http://maryjunebrown.com/2006/11/01/the-writing-life/ more than meeting your eyes, i promise. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:35:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: chill http://maryjunebrown.com/2006/11/01/the-writing-life/#comment-9 Sat, 04 Nov 2006 05:31:32 +0000 http://maryjunebrown.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/the-writing-life/#comment-9 NaNoWriMo is what I need to get over my anal tendency to overedit. It is just 2 pages a day. It is beyond writing beautiful prose – which pretty much anyone can do. Lit departments are full of students who write pretty prose. Writing is also about reaching a place inside of you and staying with it, intensively.

]]> By: twobithack http://maryjunebrown.com/2006/11/01/the-writing-life/#comment-8 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:25:27 +0000 http://maryjunebrown.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/the-writing-life/#comment-8 I also enjoy agonizing over every word. That’s probably why my word count’s so low :)

Turth is, I wouldn’t be writing a novel if it wasn’t for NaNoWriMo, so I guess that’s a good thing.

]]> By: Kristina http://maryjunebrown.com/2006/11/01/the-writing-life/#comment-7 Fri, 03 Nov 2006 05:16:46 +0000 http://maryjunebrown.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/the-writing-life/#comment-7 Yep, you’re totally right… most of the finished NaNoWriMo novels are probably pure crap. But the nice thing is that if you can finish it, you can always go back and revise and edit (and revise and edit and revise and edit) :)

I’ve taken up the challenge and seem to be doing okay. Though I wonder how long it will last ;) Enjoy your novel writing!

]]> By: rutang5 http://maryjunebrown.com/2006/11/01/the-writing-life/#comment-6 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 23:49:03 +0000 http://maryjunebrown.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/the-writing-life/#comment-6 Hi there,

Thanks for the nice comment. You’re definitely choosing the better route here (i.e. writing at your own pace and actually generating some good prose :-) ). Good luck on your novel!

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