I plan to join NaNoWriMo this year because I really enjoy the rush that this contest gives me. There is nothing more invigorating then rushing to come up with the plot, any semblance of a plot, and and then writing 50,000 words in the space of 30 days. I have no idea what I want [...] Read more »
Scrapping NaNoWriMo This Year
I started this year’s contest with the best intentions, but it just didn’t happen. Every time I launched my word processor, my mind would immediately focus on the rewrite of Shades of Evil, even as I stared at the words of the outline I started the weekend before the start date. My progress on that [...] Read more »
NaNoWriMo: Just Around the Corner
About two weeks ago, it occurred to me that this year’s NaNoWriMo is starting soon. To get myself in the spirit, I poked around and found these posts. Must-Have Tools for NaNoWriMo from Learn to Write Fiction NaNoWriMo: How I Create Characters Benjamin Solah has got some great posts on how he prepares for NaNoWriMo, [...] Read more »
NaNoWriMo: You’ve Won!
Sometime around noon today, I surpassed the 50K mark for this year’s National Novel Writer’s Month contest. Even though I had written out a detailed outline the month before, I had reservations about finishing this thing before the end of the month. I’m nowhere near finished with this story yet, but I’m relieved that the [...] Read more »
2008 NaNoWriMo: Day 21 – Surpassed Last Year’s Word Count
I’ve reached that dreaded middle range my novel. If you’ve ever had the pleasure/pain of writing novel-length fiction, you know exactly what I’m talking about. It’s that stage where your story gets more interesting by the paragraph or falls like a dead redwood tree. I’m not sure what condition my story is in right now, [...] Read more »
2008 NaNoWriMo: Day 10 – Push Yourself
I wasn’t going to post anything until Day 15. But then again, I always seem to break out of the mold I try to set for myself. I started this weekend sick as a dog and didn’t expect to make much progress. I figured I’d be lucky to crank out three thousand words, if I [...] Read more »
2008 NaNoWriMo: Day 1
The first thing I did when I got up yesterday morning was turn on the computer. I automatically checked Twitter to see what other NaNo participants had achieved. Many of them are on the East Coast, so they were able to start 3 hours ahead of me. Halloween night, I was so jealous of them [...] Read more »
NaNoWriMo Starts in One Week!
I have one week left to prepare for this year’s NaNoWriMo contest. So far, I’ve written three quarters of my outline and am struggling to figure out how this story is going to end. Usually, I have a general idea of how my stories are going to end before I write the first word. But [...] Read more »
2008 NaNoWrMo on the Horizon: Are You Ready?
Looking at the NaNoWriMo site, it’s hard to believe they’ve been around for ten years. Check out their history, if you’d like. If you’ve never participated in this writing contest, I urge you to check it out. If you can leap over your inner critic and bang out 50 thousand words in 30 days, this [...] Read more »
A Plot is Born
I went to work in a great mood this morning. It wasn’t because of the time change, which allows me to sleep an extra hour. And it wasn’t because I was going to start a new work week. I spent the entire weekend doing nothing but writing, mostly on my new book. How many of [...] Read more »
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