Archive for November, 2009

Now what?

Made it!
Yes, my first ever NaNoWriMo is complete: 50,292 words and 9 hours to spare. Now come the decisions, which I’m sure many of my fellow NaNo-ers share.
Do I finish it? I’ve left my two main characters disrobing prior to their first steamy sex encounter – so I know what they’d say. This was always [...]

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NaNo Progressing Well

Yep, it’s true. I’m right on target to hit the 50K words by the end of the month, woohoo!
Best of all, I seem to have slipped into a new relationship with the writing, one where judgement is suspended and the words just flow. I’m not sure whether this is a consequence of the blessed NaNoWriMo [...]

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NaNoWriMo – Week 1

It’s Day 2 and already I’m feeling some doubt. The word count for Day 1 came out at just over 2800 (go me!), but this morning I made the fatal mistake of re-reading it. Hoo boy…. in came the Inner Critic just SCREAMING for a chance to edit.
Which is, of course, the point. NaNoWriMo – [...]

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