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[Looking back through this post, I see that I’ve used the word “you” a lot in passages manifestly instructional or outright didactic, especially the last section — as though barking orders at <\/em>you, the reader. Not so: it’s just me, talking to myself.]\n

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\"\"<\/a>Moonrat, God bless ‘er, last week<\/a> resurrected<\/a> the Write Your A** Off idea I had last year<\/a>. (Not “my” idea, really<\/a> — I’d sort of ripped it off and just adapted it for outside-NYC writers.) She jumped the gun by a few months, but that’s the sort of spontaneous combustion you get when you mix youth, exuberant personalities, and ideas, and it’s hard to fault her for it.<\/p>\n

Several dozen people signed up in the comments to Moonie’s two posts, and we even set up a sort of interactive map so people can log their locations and select a preferred day of the week, and visitors can see who’s participating, on what day, and where. (There’s no real “day” set aside for this: you choose whatever day of the week you want, and do it annually, weekly, monthly, as you will.)<\/p>\n

You can see and really interact with the map here<\/a>, or — if you prefer — here’s a sort of quick-and-dirty read-only view:
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