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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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