Some writer I am, right? Not even remembering that this is National Novel Writing Month, i.e., thirty days and nights of literary abandon! Last year, if you can remember back that far, I made it to 30-something thousand words, but the good thing is that I actually got a completed novel out of that story, […]
Ok so 30 days of “literary abandon” morphed into something else entirely. I did get a lot done so I am happy about that but unfortunately I just did not factor in the effect of the Thanksgiving Day food coma. This year, that teensy weensy little holiday completely undermined any so-called activity that wasn’t dedicated to […]
National Novel Writing Month is in its last few days, currently reporting a 1,708,584,120 collective word count on the NaNoWriMo website. Things are really starting to get down to the wire. I am FREAKING out…especially considering that I’ve split up my word count into two novels. Whoa! Yep you read that right – it’s now […]
National Novel Writing Month is in full swing, currently reporting a 828,682,775 collective word count on the NaNoWriMo website. Not bad for 11 days of manic writing. Ok, so maybe the “manic” part hasn’t really started – usually that’s when things start getting down to the wire. I’m pretty sure that the thought of penning […]
A friend clued me in to this “contest” and I think it’s a really neat idea. Next month is the National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo, which is described as a “fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing” where anyone can participate with the goal of completing a 50,000 word novel written between November 1 and […]