We've just hit the 8th day of NaNoWriMo, and I'm already at 21640 words. This is the MOST I've written in MONTHS since the health crap started. This is also the furthest along I've ever been at the first week of NaNoWriMo in the five years I've been doing it -- usually my first to second weeks' counts are MISERABLE ( Read more... )

Okay, here's my working premise & synopsis for my NaNoWriMo novel, based on what's come out so far ( Read more... )

Today's Sentence of the Day, from today's output:

“Big time Satanic voodoo shit,” Ross said. “Cow skulls, stinky candles, backwards Led Zep albums, voodoo dolls, dead bodies, you name it..."

Good ol' Ross. I can always count on him to put everything into perspective.

6797 words so far. I'm WAY ahead of where I was last year on the second day of

Well, here's my Sentence of the Day, from yesterday's 4k+ run (46K TO GO!! WOOT!):

"This time, “prepared” meant murder…multiple. Serial. And worse, ritual."

359 words this morning, in the last half hour before attempting work.. Okay. Going full tilt into a godsawful Journey/Hardy Boys/Young Wizards Mary-sue mashup, with shades of Barb's "Candles" thing ( Read more... )

...and I do mean anywhere.

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"Oh Sherrie" came out right after I graduated high school. I remember seeing the MTV promos for it, what seemed to be this great Sword & Sorcery fantasy trip done by my favorite singer -- and I remember throwing a shoe at the TV screen during the "MTV Premiere". I was that upset that Perry stopped the fantasy trip and ( Read more... )

Really. It IS. Watch the vid!THAT should convince you folks to try NaNoWriMo. It's OKAY to suck. It's OKAY to write badly. It doesn't MATTER if what you're writing is even publishable -- the point is to write, to get past that Inner English Teacher Critic and WRITE ( Read more... )