It took more ice packs and some hefty avoidance before I finally sat down to it, but I passed the big five oh tonight. Woot! I finished early. It feels like I've passed through another stage of NaNomaturity ( Read more... )

I came so close to winning at the write-in that I started up again as soon as I got home. Unfortunately, the bod made known her objections. Stridently. Two rounds of ice packs and much ibuprofen later, I'm at least functional enough to update my LJ. With little more than two thousand words to go, I know I'm going to win tomorrow, and I'm enjoying ( Read more... )

My novel is invading my dreams! Last night I had nightmares about having lost my capacity for language and stuggling to convey ideas to the people around me. The weird thing is that I haven't got anywhere near this problem in my writing. In fact, I'm beginning to suspect I may never get there. The brief introductory character chapters seem to be ( Read more... )

Oh, man, I am so screwed ( Read more... )

Another year, another NaNo, and this time I'll be liaising on top of the writing. On the plus side, the site has gone down within hours of the 2005 launch, which gets me off the hook for composing an inspiring welcome message for my regional forum ( Read more... )

That's a very rough estimate, based on counting one handwritten page, multiplying by thirteen pages, and rounding down to the nearest number that appealed to me ( Read more... )

I was right: writing in staggered blocks of fifteen minutes is much easier on the musculature. It also seems to work fine for flow, provided I break in the middle of sentences. I'm also using a trick I read on the NaNoWriMo forums, of breaking for the day in the middle of an action, immediately after a question, or anything else that makes it ( Read more... )

Today, I made my word goal. I wrote straight through the hour plus, this time, and my forearms are killing me. I'm thinking yesterday's 15 minute on, 15 minute off strategy will be much more comfortable long term, even if it does seem to stretch the writing time out longer ( Read more... )