101 Reasons to Stop Writing

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2007 Nov 17

By Sean Lindsay

You hadn’t even thought about writing fiction until October 30.
You finish each writing session by typing "I’m going to bed now, see you later."
You read over yesterday’s output and discover you’ve typed, verbatim, an argument with your spouse about how the time spent writing is impacting your personal hygiene.
You left the datestamps in when you cut and pasted all your blog entries.
You left the datestamps in when you cut and pasted the entire NaNo forum thread about padding.
It’s a powerful, moving story exploring the inner turmoil of a copyrighted character.
It’s a powerful, moving story exploring the inner turmoil of two or more copyrighted characters who secretly love each other very much, and often.
You’ve only managed an average of 500 words per day so far, and 100 of them are about how hard it is to write 1,667 words a day.
Every 1,667th word is "CHAPTER".
The 49,999th and 50,000th words are "THE END", even though the 49,998th word is "and".

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