Re: Introduce yourself to the region!

cooldoctor1
Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:46:49 -0500

Hi, all. Katherine, thanks a gazillion for your email. I have been writing--actually pulled off about 150 days straight, writing every single day, with friend, Laura, from ChicagoNano. Then, well, I petered out. But, I have been dowsing in short stories, and even joined a writer's group in St. Charles (if anyone is in the St Charles area and wants to know about it, meets twice a month, fantastic people, many published, Nanomail me). So, thanks, Katherine for the shot-in-the-arm, and my goal is to write daily and have a polished short to present to my St Charles group by Dec 1. Not exactly Sticky Note Empire, but it'll have to do. As J.D Salinger once said of himself, "I'm more a sprinter than a distance man," and I suppose I'm of a similar ilk. But, I can still sit back and enjoy watching the lean, mean distance machines, like Katherine and Tim and the other winners, bang out the marathon. I appreciate your encouragement, Katherine, and for those that don't know Katherine yet, let's just say she practices what she preaches and that word count bar flies off the end of the scale like a rocket across the Bonneville salt flats. If you watch Katherine's word count bar closely enough, like the minute hand of a grandfather clock, you can see it moving. Like, constantly. I swear! Warning: watch it too closely and you'll wet your pants. I know.

Coleen, my dear friend, I think you've got something special and could write that novel, and will write that novel, and it's all about keeping the steam after Nano, with which I will help you. Hope to see you at a write-in.

Tom and all the rest, see you at a write-in. Cheers, and (gazes at watch)...bang the keys in 120 minutes. Looks like loads and loads of swell writers in this year's bunch, based on the Intro thread. Steve