I just realized that my character needs a mentorpic.twitter.com/EwqoldmZwi
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(Feeling stuck) Me: I need some music to write to. Alexa, play some Beethoven. Alexa:










Me: oof, that is way too intense. Alex, play instrumental cover songs
Alexa: 



‘Under the Sea’ 


Me:
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Novel updates today: 1. Invented the app BlindItem - it posts stuff too embarrassing for Clubhouse. 2. Chose a mentor for my MC 3. Learned how to improve my second act (https://writingexcuses.com/2020/08/16/15-33-the-long-dark-second-act-of-the-soul/ …) 4. Realized a final MC/LI conflict/resolution 5. Got to
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I wrote over 4k words today, I'm just 1k away from 50,000 and I'm literally only halfway through writing this
#nanowrimo draft. Me in December:pic.twitter.com/gIqJpVzFaH1 reply 0 retweets 9 likesShow this thread -
Me: (writes a plot where a VC firms creates its own PR spins via a "news" app) Also me: Maybe this is a little far-fetched. VC co-founder of Palantir: (posts advice about doing that) Me:
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I did it. I wrote half a book.
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For the story, I like taking real things and then making them pretend. Today I'm writing a chapter where the MC goes back to her office. But where is her office? And why? (thread-within-thread 1/)
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She lives on Funston because her sister works at UCSF. And because I wanted her to live in a house converted to condos on a street that didn't have many trees. Inner Sunset has a lot of trees, but they're all in people's backyards. Also, I wanted fog. LOTS OF FOG. /2pic.twitter.com/zUwCUeBrJj
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+ Funston should be "13th" street. In one of those smh tech small-world twist of small-world twists, I went to look for an article about it for you and was directed to this Flickr photo by my former colleague
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I liked this thread a lot! Nice to see someone else’s process.
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