When a story idea comes to life, it is an amazing thing. I’ve been plotting and brainstorming for the past five days, and today I finally had a breakthrough. It wasn’t the aha moment you might typically think of. It was more a case of me pushing so so so hard and refusing to[…]
I’m exhausted, so this is going to be a short entry. Today I hit 10,000 words. What a great milestone to be at. Now if I can do that 8 more times this month, I’ll be where I want to be, story-wise. Getting 3,000 words in every day is tough–definitely more of a challenge[…]
I’m supposed to be writing a short story. That was the plan. Finish a short story, somewhere around 10,000 words, then hop over and begin the novel–the real JuNoWriMo project. Sigh. Instead I find myself knee-deep in the story (and enjoying it, by the way), and I realize this story is already past[…]
Today was definitely harder than yesterday. I had a difficult time getting out of bed this morning, which threw off my groove for most of the day. That, plus catching up on house chores and kids who were more needy than normal led me to get only a few small writing sessions this afternoon. But I[…]
What a day! I kicked off writing for JuNoWriMo promptly at midnight, but I didn’t start on my novel. As a matter of fact, I still haven’t started the “main” project I’m tackling for June. I guess I should explain my plans. I’ve said June is for writing Flawed #4, and this is[…]
I tweeted a few days back that I’d be participating in JuNoWriMo. Then I got a handful of tweets asking what the heck I was talking about. So what is it? JuNoWriMo is a motivational tool to write a novel (50,000 words) in thirty days. You’ve heard of National Novel Writing Month, right? (If not,[…]
An Undertaking of Astronomical Proportions I made a commitment with almost two hundred thousand other writers all over the globe to do something crazy in November – write a novel (or at least fifty thousand words of one) in just thirty days. A novel in a month sounded pretty insane, but in an amazing, I-dare-you[…]