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Nanowrimo and other adventures

11/17/2014

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National Novel Writing Month has been very, very good to me. Last year I wrote an eerie supernatural tale that took over my life and led to me haunting a stretch of Bishopville Road for a good part of the winter. 
I also met a number of the Maryland Nanowrimo crowd through Facebook and email. The encouragement was energizing. 
This year, The Portia Journal rewrote itself with very little effort. Once I revamped the plot line to focus on the recovery of one of my  characters--Paul Faulding, the movement back and forth between the journal and the third person narrative flowed. Paul is still shell-shocked, grouchy and manipulative but kind to the core. 
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    J D Cooper

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  • Home
  • Borrowing Trouble Blog
  • Lilac Hill Home Page
    • Lilac Hill excerpt--Chapter 1 >
      • Sarah and anxiety
    • Return to Lilac Hill >
      • The Truth According to Maples
    • Lilac Hill 3--The Folly
  • Other Projects
    • Haunting Genevieve's Reach
    • The Portia Journal >
      • Portia--Excerpt
    • On Bishopville Road
    • Pirates--Science Fiction
    • Baltimore Stories >
      • Confessions Home >
        • Setting as the Genesis of Motif >
          • Reflections
        • Setting: Love Affair with East Baltimore