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 ‘Novel’
How Chupacabras Saved My NaNoWriMo Novel
Posted in Writing, tagged NaNoWriMo, Novel, Storytelling on November 30, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Prepping for WorldCon
Posted in Travel, Writing, tagged Cons, Novel, WorldCon on August 16, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Tomorrow morning I catch a plane from Seattle to Reno for the World Science Fiction Convention– four days of soaking up wisdom from professional writers and editors, meeting lots of cool people, and in general having fun and reveling in pure geekery. I spent some time going through the program, marking off stuff I’d particularly [...]
Clarion West Write-a-thon: Complete!
Posted in Writing, tagged Clarion West, Novel, Write-a-thon on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Back in mid-June, I signed up for the Clarion West Write-a-thon, and set myself a goal: add at least 1,000 words a day to my novel. Now, 41 days later, I’ve added 41,653 words, for an average of 1,016 words a day. Success! There were a few individual days where I fell short of 1,000, [...]
Clarion West Write-a-Thon Midterm Report
Posted in Writing, tagged Clarion West, Novel, Write-a-thon on July 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve gotten through twenty-one days of the Clarion West Write-a-thon– precisely halfway. It’s been mostly successful: after 21 days, I’m sitting at 21,199 words, which means that so far I’ve hit my goal of 1,000 words a day. I’ve dropped below 1,000 on a few individual days (see the Write-a-thon tab for daily progress), but [...]
MyNoWriMo Wrap-up
Posted in Writing, tagged MyNoWriMo, Novel on June 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Back at the beginning of May, I decided to embark on MyNoWriMo, my own personal version of NaNoWriMo. My goal was to hit 150,000 words, or finish the first draft of my eighteen-months-in-progress novel, whichever came first. Well, as it turns out, I didn’t make it to either goal. Here are my final stats: Starting [...]
MyNoWriMo
Posted in Writing, tagged MyNoWriMo, Novel, Outlining on April 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Since Norwescon, I’ve been thinking a lot about my novel, which has been sitting, stalled, for over six months. In that time I’ve embarked on a few other projects (like writing a short story every quarter for Writers of the Future), and my novel has taken a back seat. Part of this is because I’ve [...]
The Little Novel That Could
Posted in Writing, tagged Contests, Fanfiction, Geek, Novel on June 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
My novel (working title: “In a Land of Wind and Sky”) has gone through a series of fitful starts and stops over the past few months. My muse has been sidetracked by various short stories that I’ve been writing instead, but the novel stays stuck in my head, poking at me occasionally, like an itch [...]
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