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| Andrea Zimmermann with her newly published book |
Last October my friend
Andrea Zimmermann and I decided we would do our own NANOWRIMO. We would each
work on our own writing projects and be accountable to each other by producing
Progress Reports each week. After starting and stopping during the writing of
my mystery, this was exactly the incentive I needed.
And so it went over the
months. Each weekend I sent her my word count, page count, progress made, goals
for the next week, and other writing projects completed with word count. For me
it was my genealogy blog, Growing up in Willow Creek. She did the same.
Andrea got a good start on
her mystery, but then signed a contract with The History Press to write the
history of the Great Danbury Fair. She wasn’t much enthused about this project
at first (they approached her), but I prodded her along, and then once she saw
photos of the fair and interviewed local folks who went or exhibited, her
excitement grew.
This week she received a
shipment of her book. She was tickled beyond belief and I am so happy for her.
With my novel almost ready to be published, our NANOWRIMO collaboration worked!
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