Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for November, 2009

NaNoWriMo Day 26: Happy Thanksgiving, and Victory!

Posted in Writing, tagged , on November 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A couple days ago I crossed the 50,000-word threshold for NaNoWriMo– yay! Tonight, after reaching 52,336 words, I uploaded my story to their word count program, and my progress bar on the NaNoWriMo site turned purple, so it’s official. I even got the nifty web badge for my blog. (Okay, so it’s not exactly riches, [...]

Read Full Post »

NaNoWriMo Day 17: Distractions

Posted in Writing, tagged , , on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Internet surfing is by far my biggest distraction when I write. Whenever I get stuck, it’s really easy to pop open the ol’ web browser, go to Facebook or fark.com, and fart around for a little while until inspiration comes, or until I finally just flip back to the ol’ novel and try again. Unfortunately, [...]

Read Full Post »

NaNoWriMo Day 12: On Outlines and First Drafts

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Last night I passed the 30,000 word mark. With November less than half over, I’m making pretty good progress. Still, that doesn’t mean it’s been easy. My general goal has been to do 2500 words a day, and sometimes the words come easy, sometimes they don’t. I realize now that I actually didn’t outline nearly [...]

Read Full Post »

NaNoWriMo Day 5: The Ups and Downs of Writing

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , on November 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Well, if the word count widget on the sidebar were working, it would show 13,173, over a quarter of the way to the 50,000 word goal of NaNoWriMo. The downside is, my story is nowhere near a quarter of the way done. To be honest, I don’t really consider that a downside. I’m writing an [...]

Read Full Post »

NaNoWriMo Day 3: So Far, So Good

Posted in Writing, tagged , on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

After two days of writing (this post is only titled “Day 3″ because I’m posting at 1:30 am), I stand at 7,557 words. There should be a widget on the right sidebar showing a little graph with my progress, but the NaNoWriMo server is apparently so busy that it’s not loading widgets. Oh well. My [...]

Read Full Post »

Halloween!

Posted in Life, tagged , , , , on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Because I’m a total geek, and also because it was an easy costume, for Halloween I went as my favorite author: Anyone got it? Anyone? …. Okay, it’s Neil Gaiman. The most amusing incorrect guesses were “John Travolta” and “The Fonz.” (In their defense, particularly the guy who guessed The Fonz, it was a very [...]

Read Full Post »