4,000 words today already, after the first three hours of writing, bringing me just past 42k ( Read more... )

Mr. Ian Woon is a NaNoWriMo meme, much like trebuchets and the traveling shovel of death. His name, including title, is an anagram of NaNoWriMo, and I have included him (or in one case, her) in all of my NaNos thus far ( Read more... )

I posted this on the NaNo forums in a thread about inspiration and the regaining of it, and so I figured I'd make copy pasta of it here.

Most of the time I end up having to just force myself to write, and eventually the block has to collapse under the force of my rage.
I keep a list of things to write about that I don't need to think about the plot ( Read more... )

I have either four or seven gay characters depending on whether or not you count characters who aren't technically homosexual (and are bisexual, pansexual, just don't give a whit about gender, or are even largely straight) but have had or will have same-sex relationships. I have a total of fifteen characters. I am beginning to fear that my novel is ( Read more... )

My day thus far:

10:50 - Woke up. Longed to continue dream involving taking over a very small ship by means of a gentleman's duel. Rolled about in bed like a manatee caught in a shrimp net.
11:30 - dragged myself out of bed. In the absence of a Discworld novel, had to resort to reading aloud from This Is Your Brain on Music while my mother cooked ( Read more... )

So I finally have a working title! It's Tahini, in keeping with the working titles for my previous three NaNo novels.
2006 was Ketchup, after the name of the secret organization in it.
2007 was Toast, due to a character's obsession with trying to achieve the perfect slice of toast.
2008 was Smoothie, due to the plot's involvement with ice caves.
2009 ( Read more... )

I have yet to set anything on fire. Here are some excerpts.

After a while she fell asleep, and he kept on reading until something in the room stilled, as if something he had never noticed had stopped. Like if the world had stopped spinning, but without the unpleasant side effects caused by physics.

Rachel Kinborough led a strange life. She hadn't ( Read more... )

Just reached 20k! 20,400 to be more precise. Life is good, today is Guy Fawkes Day, I will be setting fictional things on fictional fire for sure, and my goal for today is 25k ( Read more... )

So I've passed the day 7 mark! It feels good. Back to writing, I'm really getting into the swing of this.

Elatedly,
Sorcha, day two, 11,747 words.

I just hit 10,000 words! In fact, I PUNCHED them. Yeah.
Slow day today. I was volunteering at the library from 12:00 to 2:00 and shelving books always makes me tired, so when I got home I just read (Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett) for a couple of hours. Then I saw that Hazel had 15,000 words. So, um, yeah. I ran to Google Docs, basically.
My goal ( Read more... )