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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘NaNoWriMo’
Making Sense of the World, One Story at a Time
Posted in Life, Writing, tagged NaNoWriMo, Neil Gaiman, random, Storytelling, Writing on February 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Fun With Unused Vacation Time
Posted in Life, Travel, Writing, tagged NaNoWriMo, Ocean, Photos, Road Trip, Travel 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 Life, NaNoWriMo, Writing 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, Writing 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, [...]
NaNoWriMo Day 17: Distractions
Posted in Writing, tagged Distractions, NaNoWriMo, Writing 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, [...]
NaNoWriMo Day 12: On Outlines and First Drafts
Posted in Writing, tagged Characters, First Drafts, NaNoWriMo, Setting, Writing 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 [...]
NaNoWriMo Day 5: The Ups and Downs of Writing
Posted in Writing, tagged Fantasy, NaNoWriMo, Writer's Block, Writing 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 [...]
NaNoWriMo Day 3: So Far, So Good
Posted in Writing, tagged NaNoWriMo, Writing 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 [...]
NaNoWriMo Starts Tomorrow!
Posted in Writing, tagged NaNoWriMo, Writing on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, my outline for my NaNoWriMo book is almost twenty pages long, and the characters are yelling that they want to get out of the cheapo outline and into an actual story. I’ve reached the point where I feel like I’ve outlined as much as I can; if I do any more, the story and [...]
Refocusing on NaNoWriMo
Posted in Writing, tagged NaNoWriMo, Writing on October 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This evening my Writer’s Group had our first meetup in preparation for National Novel Writing Month, which starts on November 1st. One of the guys, Jon Batson, successfully did it last year, so it’s nice to see that it’s not impossible… and truth be told, I’m raring to go. Because we’re not actually supposed to [...]
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