most of this was cross posted to amazon_lj_nano

I’m still flush with success of the “oh my God I actually did it” sort.

This is, for all intents and purposes, the first book I’ve ever attempted to write. It’s true that I’ve always had the writing bug, and I have folders full of things I wrote when I was growing up, but they were always abandoned after a chapter ( Read more... )

 
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Current word count: 48475 out of 50000 (1525 to go)
Time spent writing: Probably three hours, but I'm not timing myself anymore.
Food consumed:  some salsa ranch dip and a few pieces of fudge, some french onion dip and chips, a few pieces of chocolate, dinner graciously made and provided by Heidi (ribs, mashed potatoes, corn), another couple of 3 ( Read more... )

Current word count: 47294 out of 50000 (2706 to go)
Time spent writing: two to three hours???  Who knows.
Current location:  Heidi's writing office
Food consumed:  some salsa ranch dip and a few pieces of fudge, some french onion dip and chips, a few pieces of chocolate, dinner graciously made and provided by Heidi (ribs, mashed potatoes, corn)
Current ( Read more... )

Current word count: 45459 out of 50000 (4541 to go)
Time spent writing: just over an hour actually writing
Current location:  Heidi's writing office
Food consumed:  some salsa ranch dip and a few pieces of fudge, some french onion dip and chips, a few pieces of chocolate
Current beverage:  Dr. Pepper
Incense current burning: none 
Flower essences in ( Read more... )

I saw Elizabeth Bear doing this during a recent push to the end of her latest novel draft, so I thought it would be a good thing to do during the last two days of NaNoWriMo.

Current word count: 44059 out of 50000 (5941 to go)
Time spent writing: none yet
Current location:  Heidi's writing office
Food consumed:  some salsa ranch dip and a few pieces of ( Read more... )

Hey look, it’s mid-week, and you’re getting an actual real update from me. My brain is a bit fried from all of the NaNo writing, so I’m going to be breaking this down by topic.

Weekend:

Saturday did not turn into the productive day I’d hoped it would be. I woke up after eleven hours of sleep realizing I’d lost almost the half of the day already.  ( Read more... )

I finally sat at the computer long enough to write my next mini-fic.  It's been an "interesting" week.  Lots of very sad news all over the place, gloomy weather, and a general sense of the blahs while at work.  Perhaps I'll expand upon it later.  Or maybe I'll just try to perk up before I share my gloomies with all of you.

Today's word is ripple ( Read more... )

Today's word prompt is river and it was suggested by
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I'm attempting to work my way through a case of writer's block.   As a way to break through, I thought I would try writing little ficlets of around 100 words, or so, based upon one word prompts.  The word might actually be in the ficlet, or might serve solely as an inspiration point.   I thought it might be more interesting, though, if the one word ( Read more... )