NaNoWriMo

This year will be my fourth National Novel Writing Month, fifty thousand words all written in the thirty days of November.  I have my plotbunny in hand and a list of odd things to research (the French Resistance in WWII, neutrino mass and energy, how unions work, etc.).  Three more

Script Frenzy starts in a few days, the goal is to write a 20,000 word screenplay in 30 days.  It's a production of The Office of Letters and Light, the people behind National Novel Writing Month.  Hubby is writing a script and I'm not going

My NaNoWriMo book arrived from Lulu today! I'm holding my very own book that I wrote, 140 pages of stuff.  The pages are all black and white, but the cover is in glorious colour, glossy and shiny, with my winner's certificate on the first page, and

Ordered a copy of my NaNoWriMo novel through Lulu, who is offering one free printed copy to all NaNoWriMo winners.   You have to start from that link, and go through the whole book creation process, create a PDF with OpenOffice (it rejected the Apple Pages PDF) and pick one of

Validated my novel on Sunday at the last St Louis write-in, 50007 words!  Story needs a few hundred more to finish, but I'm about there.  Managed to drop in lyrics for Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" and the Wordworth daffodils poem, plus some Shakespeare

My characters are misbehaving.  The geologist started out as an annoying egomaniac, turns out he's recovering from depression and has a decent side.  The two pilots were having an affair and didn't tell me, and my secondary character has elbowed her way into top billing.  I