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Oct 16, 2015 at 1:22am
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Edited: October 16, 2015 at 1:23am
Normally don't plug my prep work, but...
I was pleasantly surprised at how well the October 15 assignment came out. Especially given it was a write-or-die sprint done with only a vague thought of what I was going to write. So I want to share with anyone interested.

I pasted the edited version first (yes, shouldn't edit during NaNo. I'll explain below) and then below that the original, warts-and-all WOD version:
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About the no-edits thing. I have one definitive rule about this. I refuse to directly use my word sprint results in my working copy. What you would see should you read the above item is unusually readable for copy I write during a word sprint. Often, if I don't immediately edit, I will have entire sentences where I have no idea what I meant to write.

What I won't do is significant changes. I clean up grammar, excise unnecessary gloss and maybe fix an ambiguous pronoun or two. In other words, only enough that I won't be left scratching my head during revisions, trying to figure out what in the heck I was thinking.
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Regards,
Eric Fretheim
Assistant Prep Leader, 2015 October NaNoWriMo Prep Challenge

"It is perfectly okay to write garbage-- as long as you edit brilliantly." ~C.J. Cherryh

“No, writing 50,000 words in a month is normal. You are not crazy. This is not insane.” ~Teri Brown

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Normally don't plug my prep work, but...
· 10-16-15 1:22am
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