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N is for NaNoWriMo

[https://i2.wp.com/stuartlennon.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Shield-Nano-Blue-Brown-RGB-HiRes.jpg?ssl=1] National Novel Writing Month [http://www.nanowrimo.org]. It’s all in the title really. I have mentioned NaNoWriMo in several posts already. Briefly, the challenge is to write fifty thousand words of a novel in
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M is for Money Laundering

[https://i0.wp.com/stuartlennon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/money-laundering.jpg?ssl=1] Organised Crime is about profit. Status and power have a role, but ultimately Organised Crime Groups exist to get rich. Ever since the FBI used tax evasion laws to nab and imprison Al Capone, criminals have
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L is for Lonely

[https://i2.wp.com/stuartlennon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/write.jpg?ssl=1] On the whole, I am comfortable in my own company. I’m an only child and lived for many years as an expatriate. Despite this I have found writing lonely at times. When in the grip
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K is for Kill

[https://i2.wp.com/stuartlennon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/faulkner.jpg?ssl=1] Calm down. The wife is not under the patio. ‘Kill your darlings’. William Faulkner no less. (Back to those great American writers again.) Writing the first draft of the best ever debut novel written by me,
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J is for Journal

[https://i2.wp.com/stuartlennon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Journal.jpg?ssl=1] I keep a journal. In the past, I used a brilliant app called Day One. This allowed me to update from my computer, my iPad and even my phone. I could ‘geo-tag’, add photos, a soundtrack
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I is for Index Cards

[https://i0.wp.com/stuartlennon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/indexcard_opt.jpg?ssl=1] Index Cards – This template is courtesy of my writing buddy Amanda Fleet. (Her blog is here [http://www.amandafleet.co.uk].) Her soon to be released novel, ‘The Wrong Kind of Clouds’ was written using
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H is for Hemingway

[https://i0.wp.com/stuartlennon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Ernest-Hemingway.jpg?ssl=1] Ernest Hemingway. I can’t imagine that anyone has not heard of him, but if you haven’t, go and read any of his work right now. I’ll wait. This chap could write. I realise
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G is for Grapes. Angry Grapes.

[https://i0.wp.com/stuartlennon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Grapes.jpg?ssl=1] “The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck
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