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Ignoring My Internal Editor

Fun. That’s what I told everyone: The  2010 MBT WriMo Celebration was going to be fun! And then I set my alarm for  November 1, 2010. Bounded out of bed that morning before anyone else in the  house was awake. Ran downstairs, ignoring the dogs whining for breakfast. Settled in front of my computer, ready to go. Because  I had 50k words to write in 30 days. This was gonna be fun.And then the screaming started.Not me—Ed, as in my Internal Editor, started screaming.For every word I typed, he screamed a barrage of insults.   “That’s an awful opening line!”“You need a bigger DELETE button!”“You should’ve stayed in bed! The dogs could write better than this!”Oh, yeah. This was some kind of fun.Writing that morning was a-g-o-n-y. There was only one […]

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