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I made it – 50,900 words of first draft last night for NaNoWriMo. And I got to the end of the story.
Of course, there are gaps and sections which don’t quite match later changes, and I have to strengthen my characters in the earlier scenes, and add some sections in different points of view, [...]
I’ve got 35,001 words of the 50,000 I need for the month for NaNoWriMo. I’m exactly on track right now to finish where I need to be.
I’m having the usual cyclical love-hate relationship with the book. It’s a first draft, and that’s what I try to keep reminding myself.
It’s ok if it’s [...]
I’m actually working on the third book in what isn’t quite a trilogy. Each one is a stand-alone story about one of three sisters. And they’re princesses – of course. (YA fantasy) But not vampires.
Although if you combined the two… Anyone know if there’s a vampire Barbie yet? I’m sure she’d have a [...]
So far I’m keeping up on my word count for NaNo. I had just under 4K words last night.
The first night and a half of writing is just a mishmash as I was trying to get thoughts down – there’s backstory and repetitive interior monologue, and I really should have written the sword fight [...]
November is National Novel Writing Month and I’m getting psyched up for it.
The idea is to write a 50,000 word novel in one month.
50,000 words is really more of a novella (a basic novel is usually in the 70-100K word range) – but since so far I’ve been drawn [...]
I figured NaNo wouldn’t be too much of a problem this month. I’ve done it twice before, right?
Yeah, well, the night before it started I came down with the cold from the Evil Slime Dimension. I spent the next two days in bed, and another two weeks getting over it. I swear a colony [...]
It’s NaNoWriMo time again, and I can’t wait to start writing.
National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
This will be my third time doing it. I made [...]
Sexism isn’t normally something I’d post about, but this post really caught me. It seems that James of the popular writing blog Men with Pens, is actually a woman.
Reading her story makes me admire her guts, but the fact that she disguised her gender because she made twice as much [...]
I thought this was interesting… Novelist Holly Lisle is writing the first draft of a story, and emailing it out to her fans. She’s also collaborating with her daughter, Rebecca Galardo, who is creating jewelry and artifacts to go along with the story.
I’ve always heard that art sells better with a story [...]
Supposedly Scrivener is the writing software to use if you’re on a Mac. But I’m not.
I use something called Page Four. I could just use Word, or any text editor but I really like the way I can break my project into chapters and scenes with Page Four. It allows [...]
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