I kept on chugging this week…
Grand total: 55,165!
I’m (finally) feeling excited about this. A novel.
In celebration I should run outside in the five inches of snow- naked.
Without this NaNoWriMo business, I certainly wouldn’t have taken seriously even the thought to write a novel, not now anyway. Have to say, although I was married [...]
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Victory Lap: Day 30
Posted in Writing- NaNoWriMo, tagged NaNoWriMo on February 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Writing Retreat: Days 24-27
Posted in Writing- NaNoWriMo, tagged NaNoWriMo on January 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Just a quick update for y’all: the writing retreat was a success! We arrived at the little cabin by the lake in Indiana later than we anticipated. Tired and hungry, I put forth a poor showing of 791 words before I closed the laptop and indulged in pizza, wine, board games and poker [...]
Limen: Days 22 and 23
Posted in Writing- NaNoWriMo, tagged Entropy, Limen, NaNoWriMo, Power Hour on January 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today’s nifty NaNoWriMo daily noveling brief explains “you’re in a period of limen right now…in these neither-here-nor-there periods…where levels of energy and disorder run high.”
Right on, dude. My total word count is over 47,000 and I’m nearing the end. I might well hit 50,000 words tomorrow. But I’m definitely not completed with [...]
Back to Work: Day 21
Posted in Writing- NaNoWriMo, tagged coffee, NaNoWriMo on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And plow I did!
Today was my third-highest day ever: 2, 972! (Why didn’t I write 28 more words to get 3,000? Silly).
After staring at the blinking cursor for well over half an hour, I finally just plowed, not thinking too terribly hard about getting all these threads I threw out tied together. [...]
A Loooong Weekend: Days 18, 19 and 20
Posted in Writing- NaNoWriMo, tagged NaNoWriMo, Power Hour, Speed Writing on January 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s getting a little harder. With about 42,000 words I know I’ll hit 50,000 words soon enough but I won’t be done with the whole project then. Curses! I realize I’ve thrown out a loooot of stuff on whatever magical whimsy I felt that day and now I don’t know what to do with [...]
Paris is Burning: Days 16 and 17
Posted in Music, Writing- NaNoWriMo, YouTube, tagged NaNoWriMo, Paris is Burning, St. Vincent on January 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve decided this song is my favorite of St. Vincent’s and am using it as a theme song for my January Project. Helps get me in the writing mood. It’s strange and playful. I imagine myself in a stylized version of early 20th century Paris, wandering the streets of Montmartre in [...]
Half Way to Victory: Days 14 and 15
Posted in Writing- NaNoWriMo, tagged NaNoWriMo on January 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Someone recently said that this whole NaNoWriMo thing was a bad idea. I chuckled. Because it does sound like a bad idea. What insane person wants to devote their mental powers to hammering out a reeeeeeeeealy awful 50,000-word novel in a month?
Me! What I’m learning is that this is, maybe counter-intuitively, conducive to creativity. Why? [...]
Competitive Writing: Days 10 and 11
Posted in Writing- NaNoWriMo, tagged NaNoWriMo on January 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So yesterday, Friday, was the first day I didn’t meet my word count. Only 1, 146! But, that was just what I wrote in the morning. I decided to take my night off because my fellow NaNos and I got together in the evening to vent about our projects, drink some wine and play some [...]
A Character Takes Over: Day Nine
Posted in Music, Writing- NaNoWriMo, tagged Mistaken For Strangers, NaNoWriMo, The National on January 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
An amazing thing happened. Something clicked in my brain as my fingers scurried across the keyboard- one of my characters spoke up! Where before I’d poked, prodded and demanded that she do something. And finally- she did! She steered the scene in a different direction than what I’d intended (and my fingers [...]
