I hosted a NaNoWriMo write-in today (where people come to a coffee shop or laptop-friendly restaurant and all write together). I was there for 3 hours and wrote about 3500 words. It was a lot of fun! There were only five of us, but it was nice to get out of the house and dedicate some time to writing. I know that if I stayed home, I wouldn't have ( Read more... )

Well, after a very slow start to my NaNoWriMo novel (I fell asleep on the couch at 11:50 last night and woke up shortly after nidnight and then just went to bed instead of trying to write. Today, I wrote about 300 words, then decided to switch from 3rd person to 1st person, then had to go back and re-write/add a bunch of stuff to the first 300 ( Read more... )

National Novel Writing Month (writing 50,000 words of a novel in the 30 days of November) starts at midnight this Friday. And I have absolutely NO idea what to write. I have a couple of ideas swimming around in my head, but nothing remotely concrete. The last two years I've done this, I've had solid plans of what I'm doing, so I admit that I'm a ( Read more... )

I asked worri for three words and a name earlier tonight, and she supplied the words and name in the subject of this entry. I sat down and wrote up a short story based on those words and name. I'm trying to get in a bit of writing practice because in November I'm going to participate in National Novel Writing Month for the third time. I like my little ( Read more... )

I know, I know. It's been ages since I posted fan fiction. Well, this has been sitting around for a long time and I'm finally getting around to posting it. This is the first chapter of my National Novel Writing Month novel about Frank and Alice Longbottom (Neville's parents) in the Harry Potter fandom. This it definitely the longest piece of ( Read more... )

After sleeping until noon, reading for my midterm on Monday, watching two episodes of Bones and one of Buffy, I decided I should probably edit the first chapter of my NaNo fic ( Read more... )

About an hour and a half ago, I opened my NaNoWriMo novel/fanfic that I wrote last year. I wanted to give it a glance and see if any of it was any good. I added on a bit to the end of it, since I never actually finished it back in November, and I read the first three chapters and one chapter from the middle (which, incidentally, was one of my ( Read more... )

And this one is no exception ( Read more... )

With two and a half hours to spare, I finished NaNo! I'm ever prouder of myself than last year. Last year I was on top or ahead everyday, but this year, I was around 21,000 words on Wednesday the 21st (last week). And I didn't write hardly at all over Thanksgiving break. So this week alone (and I had a presentation on Monday and paper due ( Read more... )

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