{"id":3025,"date":"2013-11-13T08:30:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T14:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=3025"},"modified":"2013-11-12T15:11:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T21:11:25","slug":"inspiring-wrimos-neil-gaiman-pep-talk-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=3025","title":{"rendered":"Inspiring WriMos – Neil Gaiman – Pep Talk 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neil Gaiman<\/a> is the author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neverwhere, MirrorMask<\/em> and many others. In 2007, he gave a fantastic pep talk to the WriMos participating that year. That was the second year I won out of three, and I’ve participated since 2005. I was about to quit when I read this talk. Best of the best for the week two slump!
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\nDear NaNoWriMo Author,<\/p>\n

By now you\u2019re probably ready to give up. You\u2019re past that first fine furious rapture when every character and idea is new and entertaining. You\u2019re not yet at the momentous downhill slide to the end, when words and images tumble out of your head sometimes faster than you can get them down on paper. You\u2019re in the middle, a little past the half-way point. The glamour has faded, the magic has gone, your back hurts from all the typing, your family, friends and random email acquaintances have gone from being encouraging or at least accepting to now complaining that they never see you any more\u2014and that even when they do you\u2019re preoccupied and no fun. You don\u2019t know why you started your novel, you no longer remember why you imagined that anyone would want to read it, and you\u2019re pretty sure that even if you finish it it won\u2019t have been worth the time or energy and every time you stop long enough to compare it to the thing that you had in your head when you began\u2014a glittering, brilliant, wonderful novel, in which every word spits fire and burns, a book as good or better than the best book you ever read\u2014it falls so painfully short that you\u2019re pretty sure that it would be a mercy simply to delete the whole thing.<\/p>\n

Welcome to the club.<\/p>\n

That’s how novels get written.<\/p>\n

READ MORE –><\/em><\/u><\/a> <\/p>\n

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By the end of the day you should have completed at least 20000 to stay on track.<\/em><\/p>\n

Best of luck!
\n<3\nJL\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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