NaNoWriMo, ahoy!

What’s that on the horizon?! Yet another month of writing insanity, called National Novel Writing Month!
I ‘won’ last year, by writing 50,000 words in 30 days. That story, my werewolf idea, has gone nowhere since, but that’s probably because I’ve concentrated on the myriad of other stories that harass me at any given moment.
What to [...]

When you ignore characters, they get cranky

So, the entire month of November was dedicated to NaNoWriMo to the exclusion of all other writing, except for the occasional post here or to my LiveJournal. So, Friday I finished my 50,000 word obligation to obtain the bragging rights that go along with sucessfully finishing NaNoWriMo. Then I opened Rayne’s story, just to read [...]

Book cover

NaNoWriMo.org has some cool links, one of which led me to Big Huge Labs magazine cover generator. This is what I got for my working title…

Yep, I’m still procrastinating…

Damn the wall…

The last bit of this NaNoWriMo story is killing me. My charatcers aren’t talking to me now. They were, but now all they’re giving me is drivel. I know, drivel will drive the word count up too, but, it’s just not coming. Short of cutting and pasting the phone book into my story, I’m going [...]

Entering the homestretch

So, I’m plugging along, well ahead of the 1,667 words that need to written daily in order to complete NaNoWriMo on time. But it’s not flowing as easily. It sometimes takes some kicks in the ass to get moving forward again. But it *is* happening. I’ll finish this thing and soon. Then I may ignore [...]

Wait for it…

I’ve almost broken 30,000 words!
One thing I’ve discovered about myself doing this NaNo… I CANNOT stop editing. I make myself write, this is true, but I have to go back and read. I always find new little details I can add, entire scenes, events, because of the chaotic way I write. I don’t reacll if [...]

11,000+ and counting

So, I’m writing madly and trying really, REALLY hard not to go back and edit and tweak and all the things I do instead of writing. These characters are telling me things as I go and that’s good. I found out tonight that Lily, my main character, is a bit dominant when it comes to [...]

Tomorrow starts NaNoWriMo

So I’ll be making a genuine effort to do this. Really. I swear.
Okay, so I don’t keep up with this as much as I should, but *excuse mode ON* it’s been a seriously AFU week at work. Monday was busy, Tuesday I was fried because I watched a guy wreck his truck right in front of me, [...]

Gearing up for NaNoWriMo

Since this is my first time participating, I’m trying to get a little strategy going before November 1st actually arrives. First, what to write?
I’m thinking about going with my werewolf story. I already have a lot of notes and know where I want to go with it. Now all I need is characters and a [...]