For this year’s NaNoWriMo, I plan on doing my writing in November. But, in order to do that, I will need to make a better plan, and stick to it. It will take more discipline than I have displayed thus far in my writing.

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When I am working with real people or fictionalized events, I change the names… usually a lot. I don’t want them getting the wrong idea (that I like or don’t like them more or less than I really do). That is why I seldom want people to know there is a character based on them. It gets messy.

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My most reviewed book has twelve I think. After a year and a half. A few only have one…

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I actually previewed it with the other person involved. We had a good laugh over the memory. It was fictionalized… but very much rooted in the shared memory.

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What’s funny is how these two stories are connected, though set 40 years apart. The Skater is NOT a mainline Dixon-Prince story. Part of it takes place before Jack and Amy get together, and Amy never makes an appearance, although Jack does slip in and say hi. We have more of Nicole Dixon, and Terry Gates has a significant role. In fact, we have a different set of actions taking place on June 13th, 1981, the night of …

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But one night, a couple of years ago, I was reading a book that wasn’t particularly good. As a side note here, I have read through some books that were pretty bad. It is a point of pride for me to finish one I start, even if I don’t like it. A handful have been a REAL struggle, but only a couple have forced me to give up. Back to the issue… I was reading a book that wasn’t good. It didn’t completely suck, but it could have been SO much better.

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