It’s been two months since NaNoWriMo, and the words haven’t been forthcoming. It’s time to shake them up a bit and see what they have planned. All of my current stories are in Scrivener and, good though it is to see everything in their appropriate folders and chapters, the series […]
Novelling
Day 25, word count: 65,688, target: 41,667 Since hitting 50,000 words on the 17th, I’ve been determined to continue writing every day of November – my goal here is to hit at least the minimum NaNoWriMo target of 1,667 words every day until the end of the month. Purpose? To […]
NaNoWriMo 2013, Day 25
I’m in that grey murky world of words floating around my head teasing me, each one enticing me with the promise of a story, yet none with the conviction to splurge out all over the keyboard. It’s very annoying. Right now, I have three (okay, maybe four), works on the […]
I don’t like hunting the story…
NaNoWriMo2012 draws to a close, and I’ve managed to do 15,000+ words over the target. It’s not the first time I’ve exceeded the NaNo target, but it’s the first time I’ve done it without really knowing where the story was going. As luck would have it, I now know where […]
NaNoWrimo 2012, Day Twenty-Nine
I’ve crossed the 50,000 word line. These last few days have been hectic. Life does that sometimes. I’ve only been able to write in very small chunks at the end of the day, just barely squeezing out my daily target. I wasn’t expecting expecting to cross the line tonight. I […]
NaNoWrimo 2012, Day Twenty-Two
I don’t know where I’m finding the time from or, indeed, the words, but I’ve just limped across the line to 30,000 words. That puts me about five days ahead of schedule now. As far as the story is concerned, certain aspects of it are starting to decide what they […]
NaNoWriMo 2012, Day Thirteen
Somehow I managed over 4,000 words today. Don’t ask me how. I guess I should be thankful to Rebecca for, just this once, playing the team game and getting involved in the story. I think she’s been taking lessons from some of my secondary characters of recent stories. I’m aiming […]
NaNoWriMo 2012, Day Eleven
Too little time in the day, but at least the words are flowing a little better now. I only seem to be able to find the last hour of the day in which to get anything written. When the words don’t want to play, the target is difficult to achieve. […]
NaNoWriMo 2012, Day Seven
In my seemingly never-ending quest to write on my iPad, I recently began investigating Storyist for iPad. There are many text document apps for the iPad and my favourite “quick writing” app has been Writings. That offers a pleasing but basic interface and is able to keep documents together (such […]
Novelling on my iPad
It may only be March, but it’s already time to start thinking about this year’s NaNoWriMo. Between then and now, I must get the first draft of The Three Deaths of Piper Gwyn finished. I have a number of ideas for this year’s NaNoWriMo but, with this book currently stretching […]
It’ll soon be November
Over three thousand words just to walk through a cave? Surely not. That must have been a very interesting cave. Yesterday’s wordcount increased the story by 3,429 words, with the total now running at 178,318 words. It’s odd how you think of the story in your mind, and the words […]
When the weekend doesn’t end the week
How to add 2,000 words to a scene in one easy step – – throw a character to the lions. So there I am, struggling with a simple scene of getting a character from ‘A’ to ‘B’. It’s a necessary scene. He needs to get there, and we need to […]
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