Every year I say I haven’t got time to do it. Yet, every year I put myself through it. Instead of planning the story, I spend all of October looking through various different tools and software to help in the writing. And then November starts, and I panic. I write […]
NaNoWriMo
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
Still managing to hit my daily word count. It’s now time to validate, to “prove” that I’ve written over 50,000 words. My validation tool of choice is to use yWriter‘s “Nanowrimo Obfuscated Text” tool. This is a feature in yWriter that creates a text file of all your words and […]
NaNoWrimo 2012, Day Twenty-Five
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
Okay, maybe I could have done several thousand words today and got myself to the half-way point but, foolishly, I decided to do a 16 mile walk instead. It didn’t exactly get the creativity flowing, but I’m sure it’s done wonders for my recent lack of exercise. I have managed […]
NaNoWriMo 2012, Day Nine
Averaging just over 2,000 words a day at the moment so I’m managing to keep almost two days ahead of schedule. Today’s 2,009 words were helped in no small way by writing over 700 words on my Android phone. I’m using Textmaker, part of the Softmaker Office for Android – […]
NaNoWriMo 2012, Day Eight
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
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
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
After a few months away from NaNoWriMo and this novel that seems to be taking ages to finish, I think I’m finally back on the path. I’ve been able to squeeze out a few hundred words by pecking at it over the last several days, but today I’ve finished the […]
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