I have, through no fault of my own (wait, that’s a lie, it’s completely my own fault), fallen far behind on the word count for NaNoWriMo. I need at least 6,200 words this afternoon to catch up. I have less than 5,500 words. Yes, you read that right, I have…
National Novel Writing Month starts tomorrow, and I am ready. This will be my third official NaNoWriMo, but my fourth time to write 50,000 words in only a month. The first year I tried this I was so inspired that I did it again the following February. This year I’m…
I finished the month with just over 40,000 words written. I wouldn’t have done that much if my best buddy, Chris, hadn’t helped me over a rough patch in the story. With his help, though, I broke through the block and so I was able to add over 3,000 words…
It’s the 26th and I’ve only written 35,500 words this month. I have no chance of finishing on Wednesday, not without missing a couple of days from work, and probably not even then. I am glad I got that much done, but I let myself down. I should have written…
I can’t believe the weekend is over already. I got about 3,500 words done today so I’m still over two days behind. I just couldn’t write anymore. I’m not sure of the exact number because I spent a lot of time rewriting some of it so that it would fit…
I thought last Saturday that I had worked out all of the plotting I would need to finish the book. But in the last couple of days I realized that my pacing was off. When I finished last night’s section with them stopping to take a nap only a sections…
I have been blogging for just over a week so far and, not so coincidentally, today is the first day of the second week of my second “Write a Novel in a Month” month. To write 50,000 words in February requires an average of 1,786 words a day. That means…
Here are the first two pages of my book. What do you think? Am I wasting my time? “Milady? Pardon me, milady.” Deana hurried to catch up with the townswoman crossing the otherwise deserted street. She had never visited Rakart’ver before, and she had expected to see folk running errands…
In November I participated in NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month. I wrote just over 50,000 words in one month. The problem is that 50,000 words, though pretty impressive for a slacker like me, does not a complete book make. Since November I have only added 6,000 words to that total,…
