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Alrighty then… If you’re not following me on Facebook or Twitter then you missed the explanation of how I blew it last week. I had a work report I had to get out and I ended up pulling an all-nighter (less because of a deadline and more because I was on a roll) which threw [...]

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Last year I decided it was time to hop on board with the writing madness that descends across the land every November, which someone declared as National Novel Writing Month. I don’t know why I decided that “catching a fever” was such a good idea, but it didn’t matter anyway. After a week and a half my hard-drive crashed and wiped out 80% of my novel (people, back-up) and all I had to show for it was poor posture, dry eyes, and a NaNoWriMo progress bar that would taunt me while my laptop traveled to mysterious dark places for repair.