Three days into November, and I’ve not had one minute to work on this year’s NaNoWriMo. Think I’m on the back foot… I blame the running.
NaNoWriMo
It’s been a long month, with many things distracting me away from NaNoWriMo, but today, two days early, I’ve achieved what I thought, on many occasions, was the impossible this year. I’ve written 50,000 words. Almost completing “Nick’s Story”, the segment of the currently-named-and-may-be-retitled work-in-progress The Curupiri Elixir, that’s an […]
NaNoWriMo 2014, Day 28
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
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
Paper is flat, e-readers are flat (almost), but books look best in 3D. Having a book printed up to sit on your shelf is a great moment, surpassed perhaps only by having it taking pride of place on someone else’s shelf. What of that time before the book is complete? […]
Creating Virtual Book Covers
The preliminary cover for my new book (working title – The Curupiri Elixir) has been uploaded to the cover gallery. Regular readers will know that Curupira is the original home planet of Space’s herald (monikered with the name Kate by that forever-making-up-nicknames MMC Sebastian). We’ve only been there once, and […]
New cover uploaded
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
Day +1, word count: 75,053, target: 50,000 It’s December 1st. NaNoWriMo is officially over. One of the negative things that comes about in November is the occasional article that attempts to dismiss all things NaNoWriMo as just a bunch of people believing they’re bestselling authors based on jotting down random […]
NaNoWriMo 2013, T plus 1 day
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 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
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.
In preparation for this year’s NaNoWriMo, I stumbled across Aeon Timeline – a handy piece of software that encourages both freedom and detail in your writing. It’s sometimes difficult to write in a linear timeline (one event following the next) because my thoughts are invariably looking ahead to a scene […]
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