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The NaNoWriMo Retool

The overwhelming reason I'm giving up on NaNoWriMo is that I'm not enjoying any aspect of the effort. I don't like the words. I don't like the pace. I don't like the guilt.
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The Beach House at Haast

After she decides what to do to find out where she is, but before she does find out where she is, she runs across a sign that reads, "Caution Penguins next 5 km".
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The Prof Searches for Magic Books – Cont

The Professor does something plausible to cast a spell over the books. Maybe the glow, maybe they gleam a bit. Maybe they shudder, I don't know but in any case the result is something Karen can sense or see or hear.
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The Prof Searches for Magic Books

Karen joins Professor Palmer by the big books near the entrance. He's holding a red chamois that looks suspiciously like it's been borrowed from a filling station. "Put you hands out. Palms up."
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Summoning the Clockwork Spider

That smoke, the smoke that had been steeping his lungs and tainting his blood just moments before, drifted to her left. She turned her head to avoid it but a crisp tendril directly from the Lucky Strike seared her nostrils anyway. As much as she would have preferred to call him father, she was glad he was her lover.
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More NaNoWriMo Prep

Magic's 'quality' has something to do with it's intentions. Each work has a ghost of the workers' intention. So good magic with bad intentions will ultimately do bad things even if it does good things first.
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