NaNoWriMo

Tuesday 22nd November Entering the final week-and-a-bit is daunting. I have a LOT of story still to write. Took the day off from writing, lots of stuff going on, including a working lunch and pre-Thanksgiving grocery shopping. Wednesday 23rd November Taking an hour of vacation time to leave early, get

Tuesday 15th November No lunchtime writing today, got lunch with a friend at Blues City Deli. They took the Redbird sandwich off the menu, but you can still order it. Very little writing done today, I'm tired and brain-fried. Wednesday 16th November Moved on to a new piece

Tuesday 8th November Election day. Spent an hour in line to vote before work. Decided to drop my 2k a day rule and give myself a break. I'm slightly above the NaNoWriMo standard for day eight and I feel like I'm getting into my stride. Writing

Tuesday 1st November 525 words before work, 2009 total. Introduced a couple of shady characters I didn't have planned out before I started writing. Hoping to stick to my usual rhythm of 2000 words a day. Created a Pandora station seeded with Vivaldi to use as a writing

This will be my thirteenth time doing NaNoWriMo, looking at getting my eleventh novel finished. I have a plot, an idea, and some disasters to deploy, and even a way to include the Travelling Shovel of Death. I have a few tactics for surviving the event: Donate to NaNoWriMoIf you

Took some drastic steps to get to the end of my story, I left it a bit over the halfway point and jumped ahead to the final scene, wrapping up a four-book series. Saturday 22nd 45043 words, 2212 today. Planning to catch up to my original 2k a day goal

Where our hero discovers novel writing isn't as bad as last week, and interrogates some characters. After ten years of novel writing, we made it to the Night of Writing Dangerously! Saturday 15th 32667 words, 2017 today. Wrote in Bread and Cocoa after breakfast, before heading out to

NaNoWriMo lore says that Week Two is an icy blast of cold on Week One's sunny progress. I'm definitely feeling the ill effects of not having a road-map to where this novel is going. Lots of cool characters, but not much idea of things they desperately