I won Nanowrimo.

ME. I did that. I wrote 50,000 words this month.

And, AND, I got to the end of the story. I wrote up to where I thought I'd end it, and then I stopped, and I was at 50,500 words ( Read more... )

It's that time of year again: the Bad Sex In Fiction Awards are being decided later today. Also, David Thewlis, he of the Harry Potter movies, weird moustache and meaningful glances at Gary Oldman, is nominated. You can hear (very bastardised) clips of some of the entries on the bbc website. His sounds pretty disturbing but I don't think it's the ( Read more... )

If I do 2000 words a day all this week, I will finish my Nano on time. Finish in terms of word count, obviously - not at all sure what the hell I'm going to do about the plot ( Read more... )

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Nano: I named my god! Finally, I named my god! And it was really really obvious! And now it has symbols and temples and everything!

And I'm not technically behind any more! *dances*

Also, Maks developed post traumatic stress disorder. For about 1000 words, maybe less. Now he seems to be fine. Well okay then. (In the editing stage obviously I will ( Read more... )

I just want everyone to know that if I counted the words I'd written on this storyline document* (which I have just finished, sort of, yay!) I would not only not be a couple of hundred words behind yesterday's total, I would be at least a thousand words ahead of today's ( Read more... )

My Nano is trying to convince me it needs to be set in Russia. I'm trying to convince it that it doesn't need to actually be Russia. I don't know enough about actual Russia to pull it off, and I'm probably only doing it because I'm still thinking about Day Watch (which is a valid excuse, for a Nano, people base them on all sorts of crazy things). ( Read more... )

or 'I'm a boy I'm a boy I'm a boy I wish I was dead I'm a boy.'

You know how people, OK, male writers, say 'how do you write convincing female characters'? How the hell do you write convincing male characters ( Read more... )