So today I finished my unconventional NaNoWriMo with 50,000 words. I wound up working on seven different projects, writing as little as 100 words on one and as much as 27,000 words on another, plus everything in between. My goal was to let the voices in, to explore, to play, and I did just that. […]
Finishing NaNoWriMo, continuing writing Read More »
Since the majority of my writing time is actually spent revising and honing in on a story, NaNoWriMo doesn’t often fit in with my process, but a couple years ago, I found myself starting a rough draft right when November was rolling around. So I gave it a try, and found that when the timing
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I had ambitious plans to get up early yesterday and push hard to hit 60K of exploratory draft by the end of November, but spent the day instead fighting off a cold by reading and nursing many cups of tea, so 55K for the month it is, plus another 2K written before the month began.
“Who were you before the Fall? / I was a singer, saw the future …” Read More »
Thank you, everyone who’s bid over at magick4terri so far, on my auctions and on all the auctions. I’ve already been outbid on several lovely things myself–but new things are being added regularly, luring me back.Book pace is slowing down. Wonder if there’s something I’m missing, though in the rough draft it generally doesn’t matter
Reading Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone and loving it so much I both want to read faster and am afraid of reading too fast. I have a suspicion this is going to go up there with Sarah Zettel’s Dust Girl as one of my favorites of the year.Except Dust Girl isn’t due out
Right. Passed 50K today, and also reached a good stopping point for taking a few days off to think about the rest of the story. You know, the part where the characters need to fix what’s gone wrong, save or fail to save the world river, and so on.Which is good, because I’m taking a
“Your kids will learn again / how to build a fire / where to look for water” Read More »
So when you let the javelinas into the story? Turns out they eat all the doughnuts.48700 / 50000 words. 97% done!
“Even though the sky falls down upon you / Call it midnight feelin’ bad” Read More »
Dear Likeable Adult Mentor-Like Character,Thanks for being so helpful to all the younger characters who need you. They really appreciate it.Now, can you go get yourself injured please?Kthxbye,MeRealized after about 1800 words that something needed to attack my whiteboard-and-doughnut loving characters, and that this was the time for that something to do so. Spent the
Dear Characters,Next draft, you won’t be solving your problems at a leisurely pace over a breakfast meeting, whiteboard and markers in hand. No, there won’t even be doughnuts.MeDear Protagonist,Have you noticed that you’re falling for the wrong girl? Because I have.Me43600 / 50000 words. 87% done!
It’s looking like the end of my NaNoWriMo draft will put me about 2/3 of the way through the actual total draft, maybe a little bit more. There’s something closer to actual structure here than for the last couple books, which is interesting. But then, maybe I said that last book, too. It’s been a
“… we lay on our backs / Staring up at the blue and the blue stared back” Read More »