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Today, with more than a little help from the NaNoWriMo Kent Facebook Group, I doubled my previous word count and sneaked over the 10,000 word line. Whether that means I did good today, or that I just did badly for the last eight days, I’m not so sure. Words have […]

NaNoWriMo 2014, Day 9

November 9, 2014 in NaNoWriMo / Word Count tagged characters / NaNoWriMo / Novelling / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

The combination of work plus streaming with a cold delayed the start of my NaNoWriMo this year, so much that I wrote nothing for the first two days. On the third day, I had to make a decision. I either got some words down, or I gave up much hope […]

NaNoWriMo 2014, Day 4

November 5, 2014 in Character Building / NaNoWriMo / Word Count tagged characters / NaNoWriMo / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

It’s been a little over ten days since NaNoWriMo 2013 ended and it’s now time to put some thought into the ramshackle mess of words that came out of the month. One of my weakest areas of writing, and one that’s even weaker during NaNoWriMo, is character development. The answer […]

Character profiles

December 13, 2013 in Character Building / NaNoWriMo / Software / Writing tagged characters / NaNoWriMo / Scrivener / Templates by Jonathan Rudderham

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

November 25, 2013 in Character Building / NaNoWriMo / Novelling / Word Count tagged characters / NaNoWriMo / novel writing / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

I know NaNoWriMo is the National Novel Writing Month – “National Novel Writing Seventeen Days” wouldn’t fit on the merchandise – but I’ve just exceeded the 50K target words in a little over half the month. It’s all about finding time to write where you can, having the determination to […]

NaNoWriMo in 17 days

November 17, 2013 in NaNoWriMo / Word Count tagged characters / NaNoWriMo / novel writing / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

NaNoWriMo started slowly for me this year, but I did hit my daily word count on the first day. Yesterday, I surpassed that by getting over 5,000 words written. And on the third day there was life … I mean, 10,508 words. It seemed right to use this year’s NaNoWriMo […]

NaNoWriMo 2013, Day 3.

November 3, 2013 in NaNoWriMo / Word Count tagged characters / NaNoWriMo / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

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

November 12, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Novelling / Word Count tagged characters / NaNoWriMo / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

1,056 in the first hour of NaNoWriMo. Only 48,944 to go. Those Who Would Die begins as expected with the robbery. The first scene concentrates on introducing the two newest characters while reintroducing Sebastian. This segment is his story from several years ago. I think I’ve been watching too much […]

NaNoWriMo 2012, Day One

November 1, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Scene Setting / Word Count / Writing tagged characters / NaNoWriMo / novel writing / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

Okay, so I don’t really have the time for NaNoWriMo this year, but I’m going to attempt it anyway. It’s been one of those years in which very little has gone the way it should, maybe I can at least get “the words” to cooperate just this once. I should […]

NaNoWriMo 2012

October 28, 2012 in NaNoWriMo tagged characters / NaNoWriMo / Novelling by Jonathan Rudderham

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

March 12, 2012 in Books / Character Building / NaNoWriMo / Novelling tagged characters / NaNoWriMo / Novelling by Jonathan Rudderham

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 […]

Fancy meeting you in a place like this…

February 25, 2012 in Book 3 / Novelling tagged characters / Novelling / On the path / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

If you’re not a writer, then it probably sounds bizarre when a writer talks about their characters doing things that were not planned. If you talk to a writer when this happens, you’re convinced that they must be clinically insane – do they really let people like us out into […]

Not doing what they’re told to do…

November 8, 2011 in Character Building / Writing tagged characters / novel writing by Jonathan Rudderham

Light At The End…

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