Through storm and sun, you traversed the noveling seas. Pitted against a merciless deadline and fighting hordes of distractions, you persevered. You launched yourself bravely into Week One, sailed through the churning waters of Week Two, skirted the mutinous shoals of Weeks Three and Four, and now have landed, victorious, in a place that few ( Read more... )

So I do a quick bit of writing before going out for the night, and suddenly I realize what my plot is, and its absolutely fantastic. Before I knew it, I'd accidentally typed out 1200 words of exposition, realized I'd have to go back and 'show' the plot rather than 'tell' it (I basically had one guy just explain the plot to the protagonist). It ( Read more... )

By now you're probably ready to give up. You're past that first fine furious rapture when every character and idea is new and entertaining. You're not yet at the momentous downhill slide to the end, when words and images tumble out of your head sometimes faster than you can get them down on paper. You're in the middle, a little past the half-way ( Read more... )

28,000 words. A number of dilemmas have arisen ( Read more... )

There is a person on my friend's list to whom this song might be considered something of an anthem. It is about a six letter word containing the letters, 'n', 'i', two 'g's an 'e' and an 'r'.

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In other news 16,000 words, I'm still behind but I'm catching up. My protaganist has finally started to show some character, but its my second string guy ( Read more... )

So I spent from 23:00 - 01:00 in a shisha café with a Muslim friend talking about politics, religion, culture, community and morality. I'm still trying to convince the various Muslims that I regularly chat with to read the Holy Bible. A few weeks ago, during Ramadan I had said that one of my favourite chapters of the Bible was Matthew 6, ( Read more... )

Having epic IT problems, making me grumpy. I've reached 1299 words, but now the computer is about to die. I've kept the concept loose this year, and already the hyperfeudal Empire on Mars has began to take on a life I hadn't anticipated and the protagonist is less morally straightforward than originally intended having executed 35 people for what ( Read more... )

You've Won!

Dear Novelist,

You did it.

Despite everything else going on in your busy life, you managedto pull off the creative coup of writing a 50,000-word novel in justone month.

When the going got tough, you got typing, and in four weeks,you built vast worlds and set them in motion. You created characters;quirky, interesting, passionate souls ( Read more... )

I managed to get to 45k, but work has been quite busy. That said, the action scenes in the last chapters I wrote were rather good fun. Nothing like callous infanticide to stir the imagination. Though it is not interesting that a killer killed, it was more interesting that my nice friendly guy character (who is not 'fluffy bunnies' nice by any ( Read more... )

Day Written Wordcount Average Projected 30 Day ( Read more... )