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
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
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…
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
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
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
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 […]
Fancy meeting you in a place like this…
Still on the path, but only another thousand or so words today. The build-up to the final action scene begins. Trying to tie up a couple of loose ends while keeping the pace up is proving a little tricky, but it seems to be working out. Total wordcount actually runs […]
Another 1,013 Words…
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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