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for Nanowrimo this year...

I'm going to do something I've never done before. I'm going to share my daily writings. I do not have a goal in mind of writing an actual "novel" this year. I'm just going to use the tool and platform of Nanowrimo as inspiration to get me writing every day. So, I will share what I write every day here. The following links are for the first two day's writings. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yglQ1PbtG1vwSVkXTfRrR0FB7MQZzi_Jx_xvLHy4cqU/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gNK9wFBhrur9CUMwT1oK0FN2hO32jpJSzwSU2vVAx1g/edit?usp=sharing

to warm up my fingers... i'm just going to tell a story (or two)

I'm not ready to break out my volumes of files and folders that contain all of my typewritten pages that make up my possibly great American novel, just yet. I'm going to need some warming up and ego building to give me confidence that I'm really ready to go back into that tempestuous struggle. So here's where my head is today. Last week I had an experience with my best friend that led me to think that what we had just gone through was good material for a short story. I've never been a good short story writer, have never really had much impetus to write short stories. and also have not read a lot of short stories... wow, the odds are so against me being good at following this lead of an idea. But it's not like I'm really writing them for anyone other than myself. I'm not writing them for a class or any contests. I just want to try writing them to get my storytelling juices flowing again. And maybe by starting to write some so-called short stories, I mig...