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Jan 9Liked by Amy Colleen

If cutting down on your parentheticals is what you want/need to do, then I hope you achieve it. I mean that although with mixed feelings. You see, I allow myself to feel better about my own tendencies toward parentheticals because I keep thinking "If Amy (who is doing the writing thing I wish I could do) does it, It must be ok".

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Great post, Amy - and such a good new year reminder.

I lol'd about the parenthetical statements too because that (if I may say) is so me!

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This was the year that I really had a visceral "whomst but a man would pick NOVEMBER to speed write a book, anyway??" And I did Google and yes, a man who I believe was perhaps not feeling any particular burden for holiday anything founded the entire ordeal.

So I would not at all look at this as failing so much as trying a thing and discovering that it's not for you in this season. Literally. Winter doldrums are much nicer for poking at a novel!

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I don't know why I always assumed a woman came up with NaNoWriMo but this makes SO MUCH SENSE. February would be a better month to do a massive fiction writing challenge in my opinion!

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Bravo on the attempt! And the fail (your word) and bravo on parentheticals. I tried NaNoWriMo long before Zoe Deschenel was born (ok maybe she was a toddler)...I got about 100 pages, book was extremely mediocre and I guess I, too, failed. I might try another novel at some point but at a more leisurely pace?

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