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Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#25Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/24/15 at 10:30am
Exactly! Sounds great. (We've just encouraged each other, so make sure you get the merit badge for that!)
#26Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/24/15 at 10:46am
I'm not a novelist- rather, I'm a playwright- and I self-imposed an assignment in May to write one new first draft of a play a month through the end of the year. I've got five down.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#27Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/24/15 at 10:50am
The National Novel Writing Month people used to do "Script Frenzy" every April, but they stopped for some reason. I've tried NaNoWriMo a few times in the past but never completed. This year looks better but I don't want to jinx it.
#28Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/24/15 at 10:53am
I just finished writing my book. It's with the reader right now.
#29Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/24/15 at 10:53am
#30Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/24/15 at 10:56am
That's great Kad!
I don't actually get badges Namo because NaNoWriMo is really for novelists. But I participate on my own and try to adhere to the weekly challenges.
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#31Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/24/15 at 11:25am
In my practice I write every day. Mostly reports but often post hearing motions and briefs. It is easy to put those tasks aside. My mantra for decades has been "tell the story" and start dictating! (Lin-Manual was in diapers when I started). One must always edit. Facts first and legal argument second.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#32Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/24/15 at 11:53am
There was a day earlier this month when I was falling behind, the daily target if you're aiming for 50000 words in the month of November is a little shy of 1700 words. I was tired and feeling like I was going to fall off the treadmill so I dictated a couple of sections into my phone. I had to make corrections and re-write to make what the phone heard into something closer to what I had said. It was a good leg up, but I wondered if I was cheating.
I tried again the next day and the phone just didn't get any of it right! So that was my phone telling me to leave it out of this process. But you're right, brdlwyr, telling stories well is what it's all about.
#33Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/24/15 at 12:17pm
It doesn't exactly scan, but someone should write a "Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda" lyric to the tune of Roger Edens's "Dear Mr. Gable," which Judy sang in Broadway Melody of 1938:
Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda,
I am Tweeting this to you,
And I hope you will re-Tweet it so you'll know
My Facebook friends may titter
When I Instagram and Twitter
Every time I stand on line to see your show...
#34Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/24/15 at 10:22pm
Namo, what you're doing is really awesome! Keep going. 
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#35Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/24/15 at 10:31pm
Thanks! You deserve an encouragement merit badge.
And PJ should keep going with the Judy number. (Believe it or not, this isn't the first time I have said that sentence.)
#36Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/25/15 at 2:06am
Having listened to Miranda's work several times I am astounded by what he has accomplished. Using him as an example or inspiration in any way seems perfectly reasonable to me.
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