We sign up for NaNoWriMo, we buy expensive pens, we write manuscripts, spending hours and hours every day in a dark corner with imaginary friends . Sometimes we complain about our imaginary people and their imaginary worlds. We invest years of time and energy working on what amounts to elaborate fantasies with no visible sign … More Sympathy for the Non-Writing Friend of the Writer
This is the last month before November, that great and terrible month where people across the world participate in a particular brand of insanity. Writing a 50,000 word novel in a month. Many of them have never written even a short story, even more have never finished any writing project. If you have not signed … More October, or, NaNoWriMo Eve
There is no other way to say this: September was a bitch. It didn't come smoothly, despite finding regular writing times every week, and despite my efforts to not fall behind. But I did. Again. On the bright side, I only had 16,000 words left on the last day of the month instead of the … More Nine Down, Three (four) to Go! Or, what it is like to write 16,000 words in a day.
The lovely dawnstarpony stopped by and asked a question. Actually, a bunch of questions. And I am more than happy answer to the best of my abilities. I appologize if I run long or ramble in my reply. “you know how you say that sometimes you write 6k words a day (or probably more than … More Answering Questions in a Rambling Fashion
Day Seventeen: 50,011 of 50,000 So this happened… It wasn’t pretty toward the end there, as you can tell by that snippet of my last line. But I just wrote a novel in a week. Now, I can have my iPad.
So… my boyfriend has found a new way of tormenting me helping me achieve my goals. When I say something important yet perhaps crazy, he takes out his iPhone and records me repeating what I said. So it’s on the record. He recorded this idea I had today, so I think I’m stuck with it; … More A Mad Idea…
Day Ten: 19,041 of 50,000 words When I catch myself researching how to write something, I know I’m in trouble. I just caught myself researching how to blog. Damn. The last few nights, between catching up on the blog and writing fiction, it’s the fiction that’s won. And for the last few nights, I’ve been … More You know when you have a perfect idea and sit down and write it perfectly? Yeah, me either.
2,008 of 50,000 words The first day is usually the worst day for me. I might be saying that because this is the first day, and I spent a long time deciding what to write. Ask me again at day fifteen, and I might say that the middle is the worst day because I’m getting … More Day One
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