For National Novel Writing Month, I’ve been writing a novel called Ghostrunners. And yesterday, I reached 50,000 words, which means I “won” NaNoWriMo. And as a bonus, I finished the story as well! Admittedly, it’s too short to be publishable– to have a shot at publishing it, I’d probably have to stretch it out to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘NaNoWriMo’
How Chupacabras Saved My NaNoWriMo Novel
Posted in Writing, tagged NaNoWriMo, Novel, Storytelling on November 30, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Mid-NaNoWriMo Update… and Story Acceptance!
Posted in Writing, tagged Acceptance, NaNoWriMo on November 20, 2011 | 7 Comments »
National Novel Writing Month has been a series of fitful stops and starts for me so far; right now I’m sitting at 28,000 words, and have about ten days left to write the rest. So I’m a few thousand words behind where I should be, but I’m hoping that I’ll be able to make up [...]
A Pre-NaNoWriMo Retrospective
Posted in Writing, tagged NaNoWriMo, Outlining, Storytelling on October 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Well, it’s almost that time of year again: November, aka National Novel Writing Month. For the third time, I’ll be endeavoring to write 50,000 words, hopefully in a manner that resembles a single coherent story. 2009 was successful; 2010 (which was actually a continuation of my 2009 story) wasn’t. However, that story (my epic fantasy, [...]
NaNoWriMo Day 29: Wait, what?
Posted in Writing, tagged NaNoWriMo on November 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
So here I am, on Day 29 of NaNoWriMo, sitting at barely over a third of my word count. This means in order to complete NaNoWriMo I merely need to write 32,875 words tomorrow. Time to stock up on coffee! Seriously, though, I’m not going to finish this year (duh). And to be honest, it [...]
NaNoWriMo Day 10: Apartment-Hunter’s Block
Posted in Life, Writing, tagged Geek, NaNoWriMo, Orycon, Seattle on November 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m no longer ahead of where I need to be in word count– mainly because I’ve devoted almost all of my free time over the last few days to finding a Seattle apartment. I only have about two and a half weeks left in the place I’m currently staying, so needless to say, this has [...]
NaNoWriMo Day 2: Starting from Not-Quite-Scratch
Posted in Writing, tagged NaNoWriMo, Seattle on November 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I haven’t even gotten a chance to blog about this, what with the chaos of moving to Seattle, but it’s November again, which means we’re in the midst of National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo. The goal is simple: write 50,000 words during the month of November, which should hopefully form the first draft of [...]
Making Sense of the World, One Story at a Time
Posted in Life, Writing, tagged NaNoWriMo, Neil Gaiman, random, Storytelling on February 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t blogged much lately, because I’ve been too busy following Neil Gaiman’s advice, particularly the first 27 seconds: The stories that I’ve been writing over the past two weeks aren’t the kind that get edited, proofread and sold to a magazine. No, I’ve been writing the messy kind, the stories that I can’t write [...]
Fun With Unused Vacation Time
Posted in Life, Travel, Writing, tagged NaNoWriMo, Ocean, Photos, Road Trip on December 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I hope everyone had/is having a good Christmas Break. If you’re in the latter category, I fart in your general direction. Actually… I can’t complain. Despite my Australia trip earlier this year, I had a lot of vacation time leftover at work, so I took the entire week of Christmas off. I’m just bitter today; [...]
Post-NaNoWriMo Letdown
Posted in Writing, tagged NaNoWriMo on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My final word count for National Novel Writing Month ended up at 59,117 words: a hair short of my personal goal of 60,000, but well over the official goal. I suffered from a precipitous drop in motivation near the end; I don’t think it’s because I passed the 50,000-word mark so much as I was [...]
NaNoWriMo Day 26: Happy Thanksgiving, and Victory!
Posted in Writing, tagged NaNoWriMo 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, [...]
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