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, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘NaNoWriMo’
NaNoWriMo Day 17: Distractions
Posted in Writing, tagged Distractions, NaNoWriMo on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
NaNoWriMo Day 12: On Outlines and First Drafts
Posted in Writing, tagged Characters, First Drafts, NaNoWriMo, Setting 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 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 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 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 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 [...]
Australia Day 7- Interlude on Writing
Posted in Travel, Writing, tagged Australia, Brisbane, NaNoWriMo on September 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In the Blue Mountains and in Brisbane, I’ve taken time out each day to rest my feet (much needed) and just relax (not quite as needed, but fun). The Kookaburra Inn, where I’m staying in Brisbane, has a particularly nice little patio where I can sit for a couple hours in the shade, put my [...]
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