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Camp NaNoWriMo April 2014!
10,000 words is the smallest goal you can pick, so that’s where I’m starting off! Since I have a habit of losing Camp NaNo’s with stunning consistency, I figured this time around I had better stack the deck a bit. Not only am I starting with the lowest possible goal, but I’m also working on […]
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Losing NaNoWriMo
November is rapidly fading into the distance and my wordcount has been pretty much stagnant save for small rallying attempts on Saturdays. Writing 50,000 words in a month is a lot of fun! It gets rough proto-stories out of your head and on paper. It brings new worlds and new characters to life in one […]
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NaNoWriMo means Unprepared
I had plans to plan, I really did! Great glorious plans that would have turned NaNo into a ‘paint by numbers’ where all the plotting was done ahead of time. I wouldn’t spend November in a constant chase of ‘yes, but what happens next‘, I wouldn’t have to retcon anything, or add ninjas, or invoke […]
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NaNoWriMo 2013 – Trying to Find a Story to Tell
This year, like every other (since 2005) I find myself trying out ideas for the coming NaNoWriMo (National Novel Wiriting Month) novel. Well, okay, calling the 50,000 word end result of November a ‘novel’ is stretching things a bit– but it sure is a fun rough draft! 😀 So I’m trying once again to decide […]
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Posting a WiP: NaNoWriMo + Blog = WIN?
As November starts to amble into view, I figured it was time to sit down and take another look at how I’ve been posting Work-in-Progress stories. For previous NaNo’s I split out the daily writing by scene, but since I rarely write chronologically that meant 3-4 posts a day. Since I’d rather that the non-NaNo […]
