My Twitter update last night pretty much said it all: “@AcdntlPoet… pushed through a hard fought 1658 words in an hour and a half. Today felt like blood from a stone, but the words still came.” I was exhausted, physically and emotionally from the long day of work that was behind me. Because of that,…
Also behind me is another 1831 words. Marking a grand total (as of Day 5’s start) at: 4,262 words in 4 days. As I intimated previously, last night’s effort would be focused on a different character. This worked well to get me started, but things soon swung back to the initial character’s focus. A scene…
Yesterday was a beast. Over the course of a chat with theJamez, I realized that I was focusing on the wrong things to make NaNoWriMo completion a possibility. Coming from someone who successfully ‘won’ with over 50k in a month, I take his recommendations seriously. (Well that and he has an MFA in creative writing,…
I added about 200 words yesterday, and another 500 or so today… what I have discovered in the first two days of attempting the month long novel: I need a guiding direction. Right now, I have no idea what word will come next; no clear concept of –what- I am writing about. I sat down…
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