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Setting Sail Into Writing Fiction (The Writer’s Inner Life)

December 12, 2016 by Gary Neal Hansen 2 Comments

I’ve not posted often in the past month. I spent the time writing the first draft of a novel. It was NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) — when several hundred thousand wannabe novelists around the world each set the goal of producing a 50,000 word first draft in the month of November. I’m happy to say […]

Filed Under: books, Reviews, The Inner Life of the Writer Tagged With: Desert Fathers, NaNoWriMo, Writing Fiction

NaNoWriMo Dreams (The Writer’s Inner Life)

October 31, 2016 by Gary Neal Hansen 7 Comments

NaNoWriMo Dreams

Last week I told you I’d set myself a new writing challenge: I signed up for NaNoWriMo — that’s NAtional NOvel WRIting MOnth, November, when thousands of people commit to writing a 50,000 first draft of a novel in 30 days. Well, it is October 31, so I have not written a word, but I’ve […]

Filed Under: Saints, The Inner Life of the Writer Tagged With: Desert Fathers, Dreams, Life of Antony, NaNoWriMo, Nightmares

Setting Yourself a Challenge (The Writer’s Inner Life)

October 24, 2016 by Gary Neal Hansen 7 Comments

Consider these two really odd “Sayings of the Desert Fathers.” Both are from the chapter on “Self-Control” in Benedicta Ward’s translation. They said of one hermit that he sometimes longed to eat a cucumber. So he took one and hung it in front of him where he could see it. He was not overcome by […]

Filed Under: Saints, The Inner Life of the Writer Tagged With: Desert Fathers, NaNoWriMo

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