I know. This is like, the ten thousandth blog post you’ve read on Nanowrimo. I wrote one myself (well, okay, it was sort of about the election, too), and there’s another good one here. But, here’s the deal. As the headline promised, I’ve been reminded of some helpful core truths about the writing practice […]
Last week was rough for me. I was distracted by the election news and I didn’t get a lot done. My daily habit is to rise early, get coffee and spend a few minutes checking on what happened over night before getting to the page. This early morning writing is when I wrack up the […]
Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month) starts next Tuesday, November 1st. Are you ready? I did it a few years ago, resulting in an early draft of my novel, Emma Jean’s Bad Behavior. And I’m planning to do it again this year to knock out a draft of a romance novel I have in mind. I […]
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this Sunday November 1st? Why yes, yes it is, Charlotte. Thank you. So you know what that means: Drumroll, please…. It's time for Nanowrimo! What's that you say? You just crawled out from your writing cave and you haven't heard of Nanowrimo? Well, let me clue you in. […]
While I am out, I'm posting link round-ups of various sorts. I looked at the calendar and realized, Nanowrimo is a little over a month away! (If you don't know what Nanowrimo is, you probably won't be interested in these links. But for the record, it is National Novel Writing Month, wherein you write at […]
Sigh. Heavy sigh. Slumped shoulders. Glazed eyes. This, according to the photographer, is the "Plot Dog." Hope he helps you, too! That's me, because I'm not doing Nanowrimo and I miss it. I miss the flat-out gonzo nuttiness of hurling words at the page and the feeling you get after nailing 1K or 2K or […]
Okay, guys, Nanowrimo is on the horizon, swiftly approaching…just four more days! I know many of you like to torture yourself with the task of writing a 50,000-word novel in a month. And even those of you not participating this year (I'm sitting it out) still would like to know the magic formula for getting […]
You have two more days to write character dossiers, descriptions of locations, and figure out the plot. The rules of Nanowrimo state that you can do as much prep work as you like, so long as you don’t begin the actual writing of the novel until November 1.
As I've mentioned before on this blog, I am currently doing Nanowrimo in a cheating sort of way. Cheating because the rules of Nanowrimo say that you can't have written any of your novel before November 1st, and I'd written, oh, 60 pages. But I wanted to use the energy of the event to galvanize […]
I'm participating in Nanowrimo this year. Sort of. I doing it, but not really doing it. The Nanowrimo rules state you can do as much prep work as possible up to November 1st, but you can't actually start writing until the first day of the month. And I'd already written about 60 pages of my […]
