NaNoWriMo’14 Day 12 – In the Home Stretch!

I've got maybe 600 words to go before I reach my goal of 7K!  If I'm motivated to write, I'll probably finish today.... UPDATE: I did it! Seven thousand and seventeen words! But the story isn't over yet, and neither is the month of November.... I'm not stopping yet. I'll be back!

NaNoWriMo’14 Day 10 – Double Post

Mwahahahaha!  It was apparently Double Up Day in NaNoWriMo proper on Saturday, where NaNo-ers were encouraged to double their word goals, which I think is insane.  But instead, today, I shall post doubly on the occasion of NaNoWriMo. If my principal were Principal Strickland from a certain 1980s movie I would recommend content-filtering before watching, …

NaNoWriMo’14 Day 10

We're one third of the way through the month of November, and already, I've written about 5/7K words.  I could theoretically write those last two thousand words today in a few sittings ... but I doubt I will. I am barely finished with Chapter Two in my 5K novel.  Yes, judging by the length of …

NaNoWriMo’14 Day 9 – Prewriting

It's so convenient to look at today's date and immediately know how many days into NaNoWriMo you are so you can title your post properly (and vice-versa). Yesterday, I took a Day of Rest from writing my novel.  I relaxed, read Pride and Prejudice (the romantic element is horribly dull, but the historical element is …

NaNoWriMo Day 7 – A Peek into What I’ve Been Writing

It's November 7th, which means we're seven days into NaNoWriMo's festivities.  I'm now having such a good time, and I've been writing literally "like the Dickens," in the sense that it's been exceptionally wordy. 😀 Here's a small peek at what I wrote today:  "Welcome, boys," the principal intoned in a gravelly voice that sounded …

NaNoWriMo’14 Day 5

The best thing that could happen to this poor NaNoWriter happened to me this morning: I had an idea for a new story, a better story than the one I've been plugging away at, doing 200 words tops a day, for NaNoWriMo.  So I whipped out my mobile device and began tapping away like a …

NaNoWriMo’14 Day 4

I'll start off by saying I've been very mutinous.  I have considered quitting NaNoWriMo 2014 as of Day 2.  Sacrilege, right?  But don't worry, I'm still here. Well, I decided on writing that story I mentioned in my previous post on NaNoWriMo, the one that's really quite underdeveloped.  On a good year, I'll have planned …