tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455399280415304344.post7023628804242471245..comments2023-10-18T02:31:51.738-07:00Comments on Duffy Barkley's "Mom": Dreaming Up More Storyechohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05161069949227164302noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3455399280415304344.post-79531118136373757682011-06-30T06:04:03.523-07:002011-06-30T06:04:03.523-07:00I loved this. . . I love the unicorn in your yard...I loved this. . . I love the unicorn in your yard and I love Rocky. :-)<br /><br />And I do empathise! Especially about the 'inner princess' and 'adult' :-).<br /><br />I joined in the nanowrimo challenge last year despite never having written anything longer than a blog post. I managed to complete the month long challenge of writing 50,000 words - and ended up with 76,000 words that became the forst draft of my novel 'Learning how to fly a kite'. <br /><br />On my first read through, I chopped it down to 69,000 words. (The days where I was forcing myself to write just to get to my word count were glaringly obvious!) But, I loved my story and felt a tingle of excitement that I could actually 'do it'! <br /><br />Then came the hard bit, the word blindness when trying to catch all of the typos and rogue punctuation. The knowing that I wasn't even 'seeing it' properly anymore.<br /><br />So for the past couple of months it has been on hold, but now my lovely neice is reading it for me! and catching all the things i've missed - and best of all she is loving the story too!<br /><br />She is 3/4 of the way through it and when I get it back I know I have lots of amendments to do! <br /><br />In a way writing it is the EASY bit! :-)<br /><br />I can't believe I am aiming to do the same again this year.<br /><br />Keep at it, you are a lovely writer as you so ably show in your blog posts. xSusannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09581993763700327953noreply@blogger.com