I've participated in "National Novel Writing Month" aka NaNoWriMo off and on since Nov 2003. It's fun, it's insane and yes it's exhausting. But, NaNoWriMo provided the social reinforcement & the much-needed structure for me to produce first drafts of works that might otherwise never have existed:
"Marooned" ("Narenta Tale #1.5 ( Read more... )

(NaNo is short for National Novel Writing Month, which just happens to run Nov 1 to 30 each year. "NaNo is also a verb which can be defined as "to write and/or perform writing-related activities by participants in NaNoWriMo between Nov 1 & 30 ( Read more... )

I ended yesterday's entry with "More to fill in the holes shortly!" so here I am in an attempt to do that.
In no particular order:

1. I obeyed CathiH's prompting, and posted a review of "Til We Reach the Shore--the CD by the Seabird band) at Amazon. I think this URL will work as a link. Otherwise, go to Amazon-Music and plug in "Seabird" or else "Til ( Read more... )

NaNoWriMo 2008: Off the charts
Chris Baty @ Mon, 2008-12-01 18:18

We're still helping a few folks who had internet melt-downs last night get their novels properly validated, but with most of our districts fully reporting, we have some preliminary numbers for 2008. (These numbers don't include the Young ( Read more... )

The Famous / Infamous Delaware / Canada Word Count Rivalry!!!

aka "Results of the NaNo Hamilton-Calgary-Delaware Friendly Taunting Thread's Competition Widget."
        (Is that a mouthful, or what?  ;-)   )

Canada=Ontario=Hamilton
80 people
3,068,472 total words
38,355 average words per person

Canada=Alberta=Calgary
166 people
4,676,425 total words
28,171 ( Read more... )

NaNo Quick Update #18

These are the NaNo Wordcount Standings as of Sunday November 30, at 4:30 p.m.

I'll do one last update just before midnight.  REVISED 11:53 P.M.

davebwood             1,574 / 50,000
hayesstw                2,195 / 50,000
Dressagegrrrl       Winner! 67,745 / 50,000
coolvstar650         Winner!  50,054 / 50,000
GirlwiththeBraids     7, ( Read more... )

NaNo Quick Update #17

I just returned from our second Written Remains NaNo noveling writing meeting at Panera's: 
"WR wrimos Final Blast to 50,000"
It was named before we all started passing 50,000 words ahead of schedule.

We couldn't get our snug little cubby hole in the Community Room this time because it was already occupied, so we used a tall ( Read more... )

NaNo Quick Update #16

TreeLady's Writing Buddies

davebwood             1,574 / 50,000
hayesstw                 2,195 / 50,000
Dressagegrrrl       Winner!  67,745 / 50,000
coolvstar650          29,984 / 50,000
GirlwiththeBraids     7,462 / 50,000
bodgei                Winner!  50,395 / 50,000       
Cindy Emmet Smith     26,000 / 50,000
TERRIMAIN ( Read more... )

NaNo Quick Update #15

The following is a word count standings snapshot for my NaNo Writing Buddies,
as of Friday November 28 at 8 a.m.

TreeLady's Writing Buddies

davebwood               1,574 / 50,000
hayesstw                   2,195 / 50,000
Dressagegrrrl        Winner!  67,745 / 50,000
coolvstar650            29,984 / 50,000
GirlwiththeBraids      7,462 ( Read more... )

I may add details to this later, but here's the short version.

First off, let me assure you that I eventually ate

turkey, dressing, veggies and pumpkin pie.

Before that, I:

1. Managed to -briefly- ignite one hot dish glove on the electric heating element in the oven when putting the turkey pan in.

2.  Spilled soil and plant water all over the stove, ( Read more... )