A Celebration Thread & an Idea for Endings
Love love love on the last day of the November Daily Write-Along
Dear Writing Friends,
Today, we will write. Twenty minutes, three hundred words, a paragraph that evokes the setting—whatever it takes to get us to the page.
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If you participated in the November Daily Write-Along, I say: YES!!! We’ve made it! Even if you did not write every day, or meet your word count, you did good work. I don’t know about you, but my brain and fingers are tired. Celebrate that. And if it didn’t go as planned—if you got sick and took a break, or something else got in the way—that’s a time for gentleness. You can, everyday, start again.
Today is a celebration post, with a bibliomancy of love, and some ideas about how to approach ending stories, essays, and poems.
Let’s celebrate!
If you feel so inclined, share in the comments a sentence you made this month that you are proud of. A sentence or two that you feel a little shine when you look at it. I will do the same. And together, we’ll make a hybrid piece of writing.
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