So much to write about, so little time to write it. Philosophical thoughts, and also academic, and also just the minutiae of every day life. Nano is going well. I can feel the story in the back of my head, ready to come out if I just spend enough time sitting down with it, but too long away from work and I get anxious* and easily overwhelmed. There ( Read more... )

Dear Cohort ( Read more... )

So I'm almost 10,000 words in, and I'm already struggling. I have so much work to do for school and everything, and now I have to write two essays that are due tomorrow that I haven't even started. Doing the one for Anthropology first, since Linguistics is easy and I should finish fairly quickly. After all that writing, I still have 3323 words to ( Read more... )

So I'm starting my journey into Novel territory. So far it's going good, I'm ahead of schedule (only a little bit, but still). I'm liking my story, and I like where it's headed, so I'm not too scared about what's too come. I'm a little scared I'll either get side tracked by a minor character (I'm starting to ship Halla/Oddr, which is bad, since she ( Read more... )

So it's that time of year again: National Novel Writing Month. This year I am going for 100,000 words, and I am truly frightened of what is to come! Sure, if I get 50,000 I will still win, I will be very excited, but I'd like to get to 100k ( Read more... )

Hello everyone and welcome to my journal! This is a sticky post, at the top of my stuff for the month of November.

I am participating in NaNoWriMo this year.That means I will be writing 50,000 words in 30 days, over the month of November ( Read more... )

Since I know this isn't fascinating to everyone either, this is also a sticky post for the rest of November. This is for my Daily Word Count, in case anyone's obsessed with my progress.

( Week 1 )

So I'm feeling a little stuck on my novel. Like almost always, I feel Neil Gaiman says it best.
( Noveling Gunk Here )

Tomorrow's November 1st, and we all know what that means... NaNo ( Read more... )

1. What if my plan
doesn't work out and I lose
miserably? Yikes!

2. What if novels
don't work out for me? What if
lose NaNoWriMo?

3. 50,000
words in 30 days. Am I
insane? No answer.

4. Spend November
sitting inside and writing
all day. So much work!

5. Am I crazy?
Am I crazy? Am I nuts?
The answer is yes.