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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30 Nov
Now what?
12 Nov
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 [...]
2 Nov
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 – [...]
26 Oct
Preparing for NaNoWriMo
It’s less than a week to my very first NaNoWriMo and I’m a typical virgin: excited, eager, terrified and wondering what my friends will say.
It’s a great concept. Participants have exactly 30 days through the month of November to write a 50,000 word novel. The huge online community offers a myriad wonderful distractions: blogs, fora, [...]
14 Oct
ABC Challenge
Thanks to Merrilee Faber over at Not Enough Words and Anna at Quills and Zebras for a fun word challenge!
The rules are this: write a story that is 26 sentences long. The first sentence must start with the letter ‘A’, and every following sentence begins with the subsequent letter of the alphabet, ending with ‘Z’. [...]
7 Mar
self-sabotage 101…
please excuse this week’s entry w/out caps.
brilliant lesson about self-care – did a task for work that i THOUGHT i had to do because nobody else would (oh my, can you smell the stench of burning human flesh??? – but i digress…)
anywho, that choice resulted in an rsi type injury and now i have to keep keyboarding to short [...]
3 Mar
Anyone game for Dr Wicked?
Just stumbled across Dr Wicked’s Write or Die page – how cute! Pick how long you want to write for, start typing and if you stop SOMETHING HORRIBLE HAPPENS! You can set the level of horribleness and you can pause ONCE during the attempt.
Haven’t tried it myself yet as it’s time for bed and I [...]
28 Feb
Total immersion
I’m feeling the need to immerse myself in SF so have just signed up for TWO events which are serendipitously cheek-by-jowl on the last weekend of March.
A few weeks ago, I submitted to go into the Vic Writers’ Centre “Year of Speculative Fiction” program with Lucy Sussex. Now feeling quite clever about this, BTW, since several people subsequently emailed [...]
14 Feb
Book progress
Right, time to report in for all the Orbiteers and anyone else who is keeping track. Love you for keeping me motivated!
Kindred Spirit is making steady progress at last. Chapter One has been almost entirely rewritten, to up the adrenaline and intrigue. Act 2 has been tightened and expanded where needed. And I’ve found more ways to [...]
31 Jan
The Universe loves me!
For the past week I’ve been consciously practising the Law of Attraction to support me having the Writing Life. (Thanks Kim Falconer for reminding me what I already knew; and for putting me onto Pray Rain Journalling)
Last night, the Universe came through.The thing is, when the Universe delivers, it isn’t always immediately apparent. Sometimes you [...]
