I realize the time for a New Year’s resolution is a few weeks away, but it’s on my mind now so I figured I’d write while it’s on the forefront.
My goal for this year is to get my first draft researched, edited and completed enough that I can start sending out queries by the end [...]
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Writing Goals for 2009
Posted in Personal, writing, tagged contest, Critique Group, determination, editing, literary agent, publishing, Research, synopsis, writing, Writing resolution 2009 on December 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Who Wants to Enter a Writing Contest?
Posted in reading, writing, tagged 1st paragraph, contest, literary agent, writing on December 10, 2008 | 16 Comments »
I’m putting a plug in for literary agent Nathan Bransford’s Ultimate 1st Paragraph Challenge. All the details are on his site, but the gist of it is to submit the first paragraph of your WiP by Thursday, the 11th at 4 p.m. Pacific time. (I’m sure he’ll love even more entries to read, lol). He’ll post the [...]
To Reach 50K Tomorrow…Or Not?
Posted in Personal, writing, tagged action, antagonist, historical figure, NaNo winner, nanowrimo08, Thanksgiving, writing on November 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m less than 4K away from being an official winner of NaNo.
I am hoping I can reach the 50K mark tomorrow, but that means it’ll have to be a slow day at work, for I really won’t have time afterward to work on it. We’re going to the in-laws for dinner then off to the [...]
I’ve Been Neglecting This
Posted in Personal, writing, tagged nanowrimo08, procrastination, quality, random, turning point, word count, writing on November 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »
So, life got busy and I haven’t realized that it’s been so long since I last updated. It’s not much of an excuse really…I must admit that my inner “bum” sort of took a hold of me the last week or so. There were a few days I didn’t write at all and just sat [...]
NaNo Update for the Last 3 Days
Posted in writing, tagged creativity break, nanowrimo08, word count, word wars, writing on November 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I realize I have temporarily slacked off in my daily word counts.
Anyway, on Monday, I didn’t do any writing, as writing over 4K pretty much zapped any sort of thinking from me, so I took a break.
Yesterday I fully expected to only write my normal 2K…and ended up almost doubling it again I [...]
Monumental Amount of Writing–For Me, Anyway
Posted in Personal, writing, tagged break, monumental, nanowrimo08, word count, writing, Writing goals on November 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I think my eyes are on the verge of falling out from all the typing I’ve done since Thursday.
Since the last entry I’ve written 7,435 words. In two days.
For some writers, that may seem like a small number but to me, who only averages about 2000 or so daily, that is a monumental amount.
I wrote [...]
Back to Your Regularly Scheduled Blog
Posted in Personal, writing, tagged challenges, nanowrimo08, novel, stilted prose, story direction, storyline, writing on November 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ok, so yesterday I just had to vent a bit, but now that Election Day has come and gone (praise the Lord!) I can now completely devote my mental energy to my NaNo novel.
Too bad the mental energy isn’t translating into gripping prose…
I seem to be rather down on my novel quite a bit earlier [...]
Day 2 of the NaNo Adventure
Posted in Personal, writing, tagged nanowrimo08, novel, Wii Fit, word count, word wars, write-ins, writing on November 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I crossed the 4K mark today (thanks to a little bit of haiku, which added a few dozen words). I also challenged my little sister to a word war while at my write-in.
Of course, she won. 724 versus 901 in 30 minutes. And of course she is past the 6K mark, but she’s [...]
Day One, Part II
Posted in Personal, writing, tagged NaNoWriMo, nanowrimo08, word count, word goal, writing on November 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I managed to cross my daily goal of 2,000 words today.
Word count for November 1: 2,236
I wrote slightly less than 1k from early this morning, but as I was at my NaNo kickoff party, there was a fair amount of socializing and eating rather than writing. I did manage 900 something words though and most [...]
Day One of NaNoWriMo
Posted in Personal, writing, tagged day one, half asleep, NaNoWriMo, nanowrimo08, word count, word goal, writing on November 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It’s a quarter after 1 in the morning and I’ve written about as much as I can tonight before I continue onward tomorrow.
Current word count: 1,394.
Most of it is utter crap, haha. Especially as my brain does not function well after midnight or so; I think I was half asleep as I was writing half [...]
