My NaNo writing experience was quite different from last years. Having read some of the whiney from earlier this month, I doubt you are surprised about that. In some ways, it was far more difficult, in others it was easier. Since it wasn't so personal, it didn't flow as easily as last years novel did. But, it didn't consume me either so that ( Read more... )

The word count rests at 50,126, which means that even though I am nowhere near finished with this here 'novel' thing I started 28 days ago, I am officially a WINNER of NaNoWriMo for 2010 ( Read more... )

For the second year, I'm having fun and nervous breakdowns due to NaNoWriMo.  Trying to come up with 'what comes next' or 'what happens next in the scene I'm writing' or whatever, it's painful joy at times.  Such is any creative endeavor, I suppose.  However, one area isn't a problem and is actually a real treat.


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 I realize that there are those who think this NaNoWriMo business is a complete and utter waste of time, and that's fine.  I am going to proceed with my stupid, bad, and ill-conceived novel anyhow.

Today, I finally got caught up.  To do that, I had to write close to 3,000 words which took me a total typing time of an hour, thirty-eight minutes. I ( Read more... )

Taking a break tonight from the NaNo writing as my head hurts and my plotting brain is sort of stuck. What seemed like a pretty straightforward tale is taking on a life of its own, but not giving me a road map to share the direction with me. I'm sort of going along for the ride, and as the writer that's a scary place to be. It's like the only way ( Read more... )

Woe to me ( Read more... )

i've taken to using the http://750words.com setup to make my brain work a bit more than it has been so far this year.  It has been a lean writing year for me, writer's block almost crushing me earlier this year.

So, here is a segment from today's guarded blather....

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I've had ideas about rewriting my novel, changing characters names and actually ( Read more... )