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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

November 28, 2014 in NaNoWriMo / Word Count tagged NaNoWriMo / Scrivener / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

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

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

May 16, 2014 in Covers / Word Count tagged Book Cover / NaNoWriMo / wordcount 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

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

November 29, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Novelling / Word Count tagged Inspiration / NaNoWriMo / Round The Horne / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

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

November 25, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Word Count tagged NaNoWriMo / Spacejock Software / wordcount / yWriter by Jonathan Rudderham

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

November 22, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Novelling / Word Count tagged NaNoWriMo / Novelling / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

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

November 13, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Novelling / Word Count / Writing tagged 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

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