NaNoWriMo: Day 19
Commentary on closing in on word count, writer’s block and writing through it, and increase in creativity with daily writing.
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Word Count, Storyline Progressing
I am very proud of myself right now. Between yesterday morning and this afternoon, I have written a total of 6,198 words and I’m not even done for the night. I am now just 3,764 words short of where I should be at this time in the National Novel Writing Month in order to complete […]
Hitting a serious wall right now…
I’m taking a couple of minutes to break away from my novel right now just to complain. I had a great morning of superb inspiration and the fingers were flying and the word count was rising. Then I reached the end of that chapter and I left that last sentence hanging because, well, that’s what […]
NaNoWriMo: Day 17
Commentary on Week Two progress – being behind in word count and efforts to catch up – and multiple methods for backing up your novel (why doing these saved my a** when my computer crashed last Saturday).
Week 3 of NaNoWriMo and I’m Still Busy Writing!
Today marks the beginning of Week 3 of National Novel Writing Month. I haven’t posted a video blog entry for a few days again, not because I’ve stopped writing, but because I’m busy writing away – and I had a computer crash (damn the Mac blue screen and ‘spinning beach ball of death’!) – but […]
Just Write!
I recently found this on Write to Done, a writing blog I subscribe to and highly recommend. Today’s article has some excellent insight into why just getting the words on the page, regardless of quality, is so important to being productive – very appropriate post during NaNoWriMo month. Why Writing Rubbish is Productive
Thoughts on the Creative Process
“Eat, Pray, Love” Author Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a genius, all of us “have” a genius. It’s a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk. I found the following TED talk (video below) to […]
NaNoWriMo: Day 12
Commentary on being behind in word count, making progress, the importance of describing your characters’ looks, dress, and mannerisms fully, and Fan Fiction vs Regular Fiction.
NaNoWriMo: Day 11
Boring commentary on procrastination and perfectionism and not meeting my daily word count goal for the last several days.
Synopsis and Book Cover
I completed a synopsis for my novel yesterday and went ahead and made my own book cover to go with it. How do I procrastinate? Let me count the ways… The synopsis was important, the cover – not so much. But I like it. 🙂