That last little self-imposed warm-up exercise was silly, but fun. I'm attempting to gear up for Camp NaNoWriMo, which starts April 1st. I think I'm really going to let myself go. I don't know that I will be able to resist correcting spelling errors, but I want, for the first time in my life, to just write wildly, without editing as I go. Dive into the deepest of purple prose and improbable plots, go a little crazy with my vocabulary which I hope to augment heavily with frequent expeditions into my Oxford English Dictionary. Wait, wait, wait--Stop! What am I saying? This is not a research project. Write first with the words I can already lay my mind on, and simply [ ] those concepts that I know the mood of but can't remember the exactly correct word needed to express them precisely.
As usual, the "fortunatelies" are matched by the "unfortunatelies." . I'm really looking forward to legitimately being able to say, Oh no, I can't [fill in activity]; I have to write tonight. On the other hand, I am going to get a late start because we will have beloved houseguests for the first few days of the 30-day novel writing session. So I will miss a few days, but it will be because my favorite people in the world will be visiting.
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