Category Archives: NaNoWriMo

Here’s where you’ll find notes about my 30 day novel, written with a few hundred thousand other NaNoWriMo writers.

Novel Cover Post Script

Click on the link below to take a look at a collage of all 30 covers created during the month of November based on 30 National Novel Writing Month synopses, one of which was mine.  I’m still amazed and reeling … Continue reading

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National Novel Writing Month Follow-up Stats

Click this link for interesting statistics (such as, out of this year’s 256,618 participants, 36,774 made it to the 50,000 word mark) about National Novel Writing Month: NaNoWriMo Follow Up Statistics I received my winner’s t-shirt in the mail (I bought it..the … Continue reading

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Writers In The Mist – Dr. Argyle Schield’s Field Notes, Part 2

Here is the second part of Dr. Schield’s tweeted field notes recording his observations of writer’s in their natural habitat. (Writers In The Mist Introduction) (Writers In The Mist – Field Notes Part 1) WITM: I want to communicate with … Continue reading

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Writers In The Mist – Dr. Argyle Schield’s Field Notes, Part 1

Throughout the month of November while I was frantically noveling, raking up words by the bushel and bagging them in a thumb drive, I mostly blogged items I had prepared before November began, being too busy with the book to bother with the blog.  Imagine my … Continue reading

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I Won!

I wrote 51,722 words of my first novel, Marigold Man, in 30 days, from November 1 to November 30.  The folks who run National Novel Writing Month call that winning.  Here is a quote from the organization’s Winner’s Page: Congratulations, … Continue reading

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A Raw, Unedited Marigold Man Excerpt

(In which Paul’s neighbor, Condor, suggests that Project Marigold might be more successful with a team of people planting plants, instead of just Paul planting seeds on his own.  Note:  I haven’t re-written or edited this.  It is raw, baby, … Continue reading

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A Book and Its Cover

I wanted to show off the cover that an artist designed for Marigold Man, the book I’m writing.  I wrote about the possibility of this happening here: They liked it, they really liked it….  Each day since the 50,000 word … Continue reading

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Writers In The Mist

Literary Lee feels privileged and lucky.  So should all the many The Life Literary readers.  Here’s why:  The noted scribologist (one who studies the habits of writers) Argyle Schield has agreed to share his field notes, scribbled hastily in his … Continue reading

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The First Paragraphs of Marigold Man

(I’m not going to do this often during November, but here are the first few paragraphs, the first 990 words of Marigold Man.  I confess I edited them, something I won’t have time to do, can’t take the time to … Continue reading

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The Synopsis of the Novel I’m Going to Write in November (and a Few Thoughts About its Impending Birth)

Reflecting on Being Heavy with Novel What’s happening to me?  I am pregnant with a novel.  I feel it growing, swelling inside my literary belly.  In the last few days it has even started to kick.  I only dreamed I … Continue reading

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