Posts under ‘NaNoWriMo’

I stayed up way too late last night and took out my Dragon voice recognition again and spent about 1 1/2 hours this morning talking as fast as it would let me to get to 50,000 words! It’s not a personal best for time or total words – that was last year with over 80,000 [...]

ZERO words on my NaNo novel yesterday. That won’t do!

Mad cheering erupts!
I managed to stay up until midnight to start NaNoWriMo off the second it was legal to do so. I quickly discovered I have more planning to do than I thought. It is very disruptive to get to a sentence and realize you don’t know what your city or kingdom is called. This [...]

As November and NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) draws to a close, novel writers may begin to feel confusion over what happens next. Your choice will depend largely on your writing goals. Some abandon their novel in December, while others go on to complete, edit, and publish it. When NaNoWriMo is not enough, this novel [...]

NaNoWriMo’s almost done, and I’ve been playing catch-up big time. I think I’ll get it done this year, but I haven’t had my heart in it like usual. Still, the drive to win is strong, and I want a clean record three years in a row.
In the time leading up to the winter [...]