MPR: For thousand of Minnesotans, this week is crunch week. It’s not just because it’s Thanksgiving, it’s because they have to finish a novel by midnight Saturday.
A Novel in a Month
Nov 23 2008 — 10:56pm
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Fuck weapons of war also noodleman I don't want to pay for that either. Can you say red hearing. Pull out of every base around the globe is my ho...
swandog
Nov 22 2009 - 12:28 am →
Well, gosh, swandog. Let's make churches responsible for the behavior of all their congregations. But then who would be financially responsible for...
noodleman
Nov 22 2009 - 12:07 am →
Assurance Process The American resettlement organization must "assure" the Department of State that it is prepared to receive each matched refugee...
swandog
Nov 21 2009 - 11:45 pm →
Here's a short summary of the refugee resettlement process in the US: http://www.refugees.org/article.aspx?id=1082&subm=40&ssm=47&a...
mnblrmkr
Nov 21 2009 - 9:31 pm →
Just did a quick search, and it appears that for 2009, the refugee quota was set at 80,000 again. Usually, fewer refugees are actually admitted th...
mnblrmkr
Nov 21 2009 - 9:15 pm →
"So your premise is that the churches have nothing to do with importing refugee populations into the state." No ,they are involved, but the refu...
mnblrmkr
Nov 21 2009 - 9:13 pm →
http://www.mnchurches.org/programs/directservices/refugeservices.html Our Partnerships: Refugee Services became a program of the Minnesota Counc...
swandog
Nov 21 2009 - 8:00 pm →
Noodleman - I do NOT think that Somalians commit more welfare fraud than other groups of people. People are people they will always maximize a giv...
swandog
Nov 21 2009 - 7:43 pm →
"It is the churches that are the catalyst for bringing in refugee populations and showing them to the door of the welfare office." Uhm, no it's ...
mnblrmkr
Nov 21 2009 - 7:09 pm →
@Rat: Well, you asked who I had in mind. At least I'm providing links to things that actually happen; not just uncited innuendo. I could've also po...
noodleman
Nov 21 2009 - 12:28 pm →
7 Reader Comments
6:41 am
Crap, I better get started!
8:22 am
Gee Kurtis, you’re always waiting until the last moment…
8:29 am
The phenomenon interests me, although I’ve never done it. So many books and websites have advice for writers, some good and some bad, that it paralyzes would-be authors. So it’s great to see advice that’s just about pounding away at the keypad and finishing something. That really is the first rule of writing: Write, damn it!
NaNoWriMo is also a shared experience and really social, where writing is usually a lonely business. So the experience is probably positive for a lot of writers and gives them confidence in themselves and is fun. Not that I would want to read any of their manuscripts…
8:33 am
“Just write Damn it!” is the motto of my blog! However, 2000 words a day is a bit much for those of us with full time jobs. I agree that most of the manuscripts have to be horrible.
8:35 am
I knew I stole that motto from somewhere!
Yeah, the word counts are unbelievable. I guess that’s what makes it popular–the sheer lunacy of it.
4:08 pm
I’ve done this 2 other years and “won.” It’s 9 kinds of awesome.
And all typical first drafts mix crappy writing with solid writing and even some glimmers of downright good writing, no matter whether you write them in a month or a year.
Nanowrimo’s brilliance is that it gets you to stop paralyzing yourself with perfectionism. & a peck of pickled peppers.
4:26 pm
Way to go CMC! Sadly, being paralyzed with perfection is not my problem.