Find this week's post at tumblr hereI'll be honest. I don't remember a whole lot about what went on during Week 4. I'm putting that down to heat-induced amnesia. What I do remember is that I went into Week 4 with a whole lot of word debt and not a lot of confidence. Until Sunday night, that is, when I was lying in bed trying to sleep and started ( Read more... )

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Apparently "Week 3" is synonymous with "slack off." Because that's mostly what I did this week.

In NaNoWriMo's past, Week 3 has been, for me anyway, the final slog after turn you a corner and see civilisation in the distance. You still have a few pit bogs to deal with before you get there, but at least it's ( Read more... )

Find this week's post at tumblr hereThe bemoaning of Week 2 seems to be common to most, if not all, NaNoWriMo participants. Week 2 is when the plot starts happening (usually. If not ... at least there's still two weeks to go) and the the going gets tough. The leafy green foliage of creative energy has been left in the dust and you're standing in ( Read more... )

Back when I was a semi-regular blogger, I posted progress reports every few days when I was NaNo-ing. This time I wasn't going to blog at all, seeing as I'm doing daily word count updates on Facebook, but then thought it might be fun to document the event weekly, given that the weeks during NaNo tend to differ greatly from each other in terms of ( Read more... )