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December 15th, 2011 by Cornflakegirl

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I’m off to Madrid to bother my siblings and spoil my niece. Read you all on my return!
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Let’s get started

December 11th, 2011 by Cornflakegirl

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Anger is fuel. We feel it and we want to do something. Hit someone, break something, throw a fit, smash a fist into the wall, tell those bastards. But we are nice people, and what we do with our anger is stuff it, deny it, bury it, block it, hide it, lie about it, medicate it muffle it, ignore it. We do everything but listen to it.

Anger is meant to be listened to. Anger is a voice, a shout, a plea, a demand. Anger is meant to be respected. Why? Because anger is a map. Anger shows us what our boundaries are. Anger shows us where we want to go. It lets us see where we’ve been and lets us know when we haven’t liked it. Anger points the way, not just the finger. In the recovery of a blocked artist, anger is a sign of health.

Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.
Sometimes we are angry that we feel anger. Damn anger!! It tells us that we can’t get away with our life any longer. It tells us that the old life is dying. It tells us that we are being reborn, and birthing hurts. He hurts makes us angry.

Anger is the firestorm that signals the death of our old life. Anger is the fuel that propels us into our new one. Anger is a tool not a master. Anger is meant to be tapped into and drawn upon. Used properly anger is useful.

Sloth, apathy and despair are the enemy. Anger is not. Anger is not a gentle friend but a very loyal friend. It will always tell us when we have betrayed and when we have betrayed ourselves. It will always tell us that it is time to act in our best interests.

Anger is not the action itself. It is action’s invitation.

Julia Cameron in The Artist’s Way

This text has made me wonder and I’ve wanted to share it with you all. Maybe because the end of the year is nearly there, I was wondering about what I’ve done during these months and all what I wanted to do. With the new year, always with renewed energy, I will think about my resolutions and new goals.
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What I’ve learned from Nanowrimo

December 4th, 2011 by Cornflakegirl

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What I’ve learned from NaNoWriMo

1. 50K words are many wrods but it isn’t a completed novel.
2. Planning is the key for not get lost in the plot. However, if you limit yourself too much, it’s easy to get out of plot when you’ve written 30K words.
3. NaNoWriMo is a long distance running and you need to be driven and focused.
4. There will be days where you won’t write down a Word so you have to keep this in mind the days you are writing.
5. The first thousand words are the hardest.
6. The last 10K are even worse!
7. I need to write listening music and the best time for me is after dinner.
8. I’ve not participated in fórum or atended any meeting. NaNoWriMo has been a personal challenge not very social however, I’ve found extremely supporting the people from Google+.
9. NaNoWriMo has been less hard tan I’ve expected.
10. After NaNoWriMo, I need to work a lot on my draft. There are a lot to edit and do!

I’ve also learned that it’s very easy to focus on the main plot and forget about the subplots. I have to find a balance between them when I’m writing from the beginning to the end on a chronologic way because I used to write in a chaotic way jumping between scenes.

Keeping in mind that this was the first time I was taking part on NaNoWriMo, I think I made it very well and what really surprised me is how much I learned from it!
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