NaNoWriMo

About 20 people turned up for the St Louis NaNo write-in on Sunday, all tapping away  on one Alphasmart, three Macs, and a bunch of PC laptops.  Almost everyone was wearing  headphones and ignoring the others, chugging coffee and slowly eroding their  fingerprints.  I am woefully  behind on word count

I have about 300 words on a NaNo novel.  I'm not aiming to hit the 50k word count, I'm just going to take my time with it.  But the sweater is driving me nuts and I needed a break.  Hubby is doing great with his novel,

We went to the kick off party for St Louis NaNoWriMo Sunday afternoon.  They want me to write.  I told them I have a sweater to finish but they want me to write.  The galling thing is that after a whole year with no story idea, I finally got mugged

My novel is at 50,000 words, another few scenes and it'll be done.  I think I'm taking tomorrow off. Grateful thanks to: * The excellent cheerleading team, both online and offline (Hubby, Rox, Carrie, Shirl, Jan the Warrior Knitter, Rose Black, and NaNo St Louis). * Godiva

Nearly there!  These are the lessons learned from my second NaNoWriMo experience: * Do your research outside of writing times. * Turn off the internet until you hit your word count for the session.  Then go on the NaNo forums. * Compete with no-one but yourself. * Meet the local NaNo'ers, it&

Crossed the thirty thousand word mark last night.  It looks like a lot more words when you spell it out, 30k or 30,000 doesn't look nearly as much.  There's a directory for my NaNoWriMo work on the Mac, and it's filling up with