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NaNoWriMo Day 8: My Life as a WriMo

NaNoWriMo 2011, day 8 Today’s personal word-count goal: 19,998 Today’s actual word-count so far: 17,620 Ahead or behind? Behind! I’ve got 2,378 words to write today. Years I’m Writing About: 1991-1993, on my Facebook Page you can contribute your own words about these years. In 2008, I participated in NaNoWriMo for the first time, and [ READ MORE ]

Day 1: What is this and why do I do it?

Today’s Word Count Goal: 2950 Today’s Word Count So-Far: 1018 Total Word Count Goal: 50,000 NaNoWriMo is an annual, global endeavor where writers support each other to write 50,000 words in 30 days. What I’ve done in previous years is increase the required daily page count in order to not write on weekends and be [ READ MORE ]

Straddling Creative Forces

While I’ve been busy plotting new and exciting opportunities for writers in my community, I’ve been wrestling with a few plots of my own, and they’ve got me straddling projects, concepts, strategies, and continents. In the new year, I tackled the daunting-yet-flattering task of sitting down with the 18 wonderful readers who agreed to read [ READ MORE ]

I’m a Verified 2-time NaNoWriMo Winner!

Sending love, caffeine, a quiet place to write, and a lot of inspiration to all my fellow WriMos who are still in the race. You can do it![ READ MORE ]

I’m done! I’m done! What year is it?

I wrote word number 50,356 at about 9:15 this morning. I feel great. My post-completion to-do list looks like this: Tweet so the world can congratulate me. Post to blog. Fix year-number typos in yesterday’s blog (yes, I was so excited and lost in my novel that I forgot what year it was!) Donate to [ READ MORE ]

NaNoWriMo Day 23: Perseverance

So many elements of this year’s NaNoWriMo have been different from last year. Last year, I had not yet discovered Facebook and Twitter. Both these social media outlets are wonderful sources of support to me this time around. It’s great to feel lots of eyes on that word count (45359 today, thank you very much). [ READ MORE ]

NaNoWriMo Day 17: 33,333

It looks like such a Biblical blog post title, doesn’t it? That little colon stuck between the numbers. All those threes. It’s not. It’s just my word count goal for the day. But the novel–yes, it is Biblical. There are tambourines, ravens, miracles, prophets and prophetesses, and people speaking in tongues. I’m writing historical fiction [ READ MORE ]

NaNoWriMo Day 15: Doubt

I don’t know how I did this last year. And I’m beginning to understand why people look at me funny when I explain that I am writing 50,000 words in 21 days. This is a crazy undertaking. I mean, here I am, writing at 7am on a Sunday. My wife sleeps peacefully beside me, and [ READ MORE ]

NaNoWriMo Day 10: Embracing Distraction

Word count goal: 16667 Current count: 15004 How can she blog at a time like this? She is sixteen hundred words behind! That’s part of the beauty and trauma of NaNoWriMo. One minute I’m right on schedule, and the next minute, I’m thousands of words behind. Don’t worry, I will make my goal today, probably [ READ MORE ]

NaNoWriMo Day 5: Gratitude

Word Count Goal: 11905 Current Word Count: 8958 Living the uber-heady, type-o-matic novel-in-a-month experience creates a surreal sense that I am just a brain and ten fingertips. But I am much much more than that, and it takes more than a good outline and a stopwatch to survive NaNoWriMo. I’m so thankful for people around [ READ MORE ]

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