Technically, it's a couple days early for a weekly update, but one of the side effect of NaNo is that I don't have time to update my (nearly) abandoned blog with things other than NaNoWriMo updates. I'm procrastinating as I'm writing this. I'm a little behind in the day's total, but I hope to be caught up at the time of posting.
One thing NaNo has taught me over the years is to write smoothly and efficiently, if a little tersely. (Granted, I'm not the most verbose person to start with.) This is acceptable for early drafts. Unless you are, in fact, Raymond Carver, or a fan of 80s minimalism, you can always go back and "pretty up" your writing later. I like to call this a "skeleton" draft -- just the barest necessities of your story. Since I tend to write character rather than plot-driven fiction, this means my characters are a little less than dynamic. Actually, they're a bunch of cliched asshats right now. I printed out the first chapter and cringed as I reread it.
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