Take Five: Welcome and info

Take Five
Five-minute reads about writing
to help you with NaNoWriMo
Nov. 3 - Nov. 30, 2010
Courtesy: Sasha Soren (Random Magic)
Twitter: @RandomMagicTour

Welcome! Having just wrapped up the Random Magic Halloween Tour on Nov. 2, 2010, noticed that a lot of people were online, talking about their plans for NaNoWriMo.

Some jumped right into it, racking up 1,000 - 5,000 words in less than 48 hours. Others needed a little...gentle prodding.

Although not participating in the event, noticed that a lot of people were nervous about getting started. Here's the thing, though -- if you never start, you'll never finish.

So, to help make it easier to get in front of the screen, just sharing quick tidbits from interviews posted on last year's Random Magic Tour (2009), sharing some thoughts on writing.

Most of them will be cut-and-paste excerpts from interviews, although might edit slightly to update, or to add additional thoughts, or to make the info more general, not specific to any particular book.

Now, the tidbits might be useful to you, or not, but hopefully they might save you some hard work, or send out a little energy to push ahead to the next page, then the next.

Not sure how many tidbits there'll be, and for how long they'll be sent out on Twitter, but should be enough to give you a few five-minute breaks from the screen.

They'll have themes indicated, but won't be listed in any particular kind of order, can start with any numbered item.

Either way, look at the upside -- for five minutes, you won't have to grab your head, trying to shake out that word you're trying to remember.

And why is this? Because for five minutes, while perusing the latest writing tibit, you're actually, actually doing, uh...research. Yes.

*Please note, won't be able to answer specific questions about writing (busy with other projects and need the time for them), but hope you enjoy Take Five and get something useful from the series.

Have fun!

Take Five
Five-minute reads about writing
Courtesy: Sasha Soren (Random Magic)
Twitter: @RandomMagicTour
Nov. 3 - Nov. 30, 2010

This is the intro page, giving info about the event. The links will appear on a separate post, so that you'll always go right to the most recent tidbit for that day.

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Take Five
Five-minute reads about writing
Participating Blogs
Nov. 3 - Nov. 30

You might also enjoy stopping by to visit these great participating blogs. If you're a regular visitor to any of the blogs, you'll find a Take Five sidebar link there, through November (Nov. 3 - Nov. 30), which takes you directly to all the Take Five posts.

So, you can still stay and browse your favorite blog, and still have Take Five writing reads, just a click away. Enjoy your visit!:

vvb32 Reads
(Invitation and link)
(Sidebar access to all posts thru. end of event)

Spellbound by Books
(Invitation and link)

Susan K. Mann
(Invitation and link)

Willowdust Reviews
(Sidebar access to all posts thru. end of event)

The Coven (this blog)
(All posts, collected)

Alyx Bennett

and

StoryWings

Take Five
Five-minute reads about writing
Event badges (if needed)
Nov. 3 - Nov. 30

Additional info: Images
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