getyourwordsout is currently taking pledges for 2010, so if you are interested in joining for next year, now is the time. Along with the same pledges as last year - 200k, 250k, 300k, and 350k - they've also added two single-project pledge options of 100k and 150k ( Read more... )

NaNo week 4, getyourwordsout week 47 ( Read more... )

NaNo week 3, getyourwordsout week 46

weekly goal: 12,000
actual: 10,571, 88.1% of goal
running goal: 24,000
running actual: 22,589, % of goal

yearly goal: 200,000
yearly actual: 182,616, 91.3% of goal

The enemy is not the bad page. It is the empty page.
- Timothy Hallinan

NaNo week 2, getyourwordsout week 45

weekly NaNo goal: 12,000
actual: 9172, 76.4% of goal
running NaNo goal: 12,000
running actual: 12,018, 100% of goal

yearly goal: 200,000
yearly actual: 172,045, 86% of goal

This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor - don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it ' ( Read more... )

NaNo week 1, getyourwordsout week 44

weekly NaNo goal: 0 [no quota on Sundays]
actual: 2846, n/a % of goal
running NaNo goal: 0
running actual: 2846, n/a % of goal

yearly goal: 200,000
yearly actual: 162,873, 81.4% of goal

Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in ( Read more... )

Week 39: 2538 words, 63.5% of
Week 39 goal: 4000 words

Running total: 158,965 words, 79.5% of
Year goal: 200,000 words

Week 40: 1062 words, 27% of
Week 40 goal: 4000 words

Running total: 160,027 words, 80% of
Year goal: 200,000 words

Ring the bells that still can ring ( Read more... )

Week 38: 7423 words, 186% of
Week 38 goal: 4000 words

Running total: 156,427 words, 52.1% of
Year goal: 300,000 words

I've written 3 NaNo equivalents already this year. Holy crap.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. - John Steinbeck

Week 36: 4746 words, 119% of ( Read more... )

Week 35: 4581 words, 115% of
Week 35 goal: 4000 words

Running total: 142,197 words, 47.4% of
Year goal: 300,000 words

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. - Erich Fromm

Week 34: 6376 words, 160% of
Week 34 goal: 4000 words

Running total: 137,616 words, 45.9% of
Year goal: 300,000 words

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists ( Read more... )