Word Count: 13289 for a total of 53,607 I originally wanted to post this recap of Saturday’s awesomeness on Saturday or Sunday but my brain was feeling a bit too fried. Doing it today also gave me the distance I…
Tag: NaNoWriMo
NaNo 2010 Day Ten
Word Count: 2833 for a total of 25871 Revised Words: 5971 for a total of 29009 I’ve done it! I’m now on the backside of 50k words. I’m not sure if it’s all downhill from here but it does feel…
NaNo 2010 Days 5-8
Word Count: 2973 words today, for a total of 20353 Hooboy. What a weekend. I didn’t post anything mainly because I was busy with a Tarot Intensive that my friend Katrina Wynne was putting on. Pretty much ate most of…
NaNo 2010 Day Four
Word Count: 3013 words today, for a total of 11770 Today was funky. I woke up late, and had to attend to Real Life things before I could actually properly sit down and focus on anything. I did manage to…
NaNo 2010 Day Two
Word Count: 3077 for a total of 5644 Today I took the plunge and badly wrote a car race and wreck for my MC Julien. Basically, the goal was to kill him off so the real story starts. A friend…
NaNo 2010 Day One
Word Count: 2567 In 2008, while I went crazy and wrote a novel in a month by hand, instead of posting the whole thing live, I wrote about my writing experiences. This was partially based off a fellow writer (and…
Story ideas come from the strangest places
This year’s NaNoWriMo novel is based off an experience I had this past July. I was driving my car in town and speaking to my spirit guide. I was musing how such a guide ended up with me as their…
Story Soundtracks
The first year I participated in NaNoWriMo, I created a soundtrack to write by because I thought it’d be fun and help motivate me to greatness. I’m a writer who writes to music and it did spur me on. Over…
If it Works… Do It; or How I uncovered my 2009 nano idea
“If it works, go for it,” became this year’s motto for uncovering my central idea for NaNoWriMo 2009. I fretted over the past five days about how “late” I was in getting an idea for my story. Kender and I…
DIYP Article Up: NaNoWriMo 2008 Recap
I just posted a recap about this year’s NaNoWriMo adventures over at DIYPlanner.com. I wrote a short list of all the things I’ve learned from writing a novel by hand and took a few images of my journal and inkwell.…