NaNoWriMo

Week One is where you ride the wave and stack up as many words as you can in preparation for the cold shock of the dreaded Week Two. I realised this week if I finish book 4 of my trilogy (and then go back and finish the story for book

Slowing down but still plodding on. Must finish the story! (Daily updates are posted here) Friday 29th 54689 words, 1883 today. Black Friday, thankfully an office holiday. My task for the day is to caramelise condensed milk to make a banoffee pie for dinner with friends tonight. And write more

I usually find week four hard, especially once I make the official NaNoWriMo winning word count, because my story usually isn't done. I have promised myself a bribe for finishing the story. (Daily updates are posted here) Friday 22nd 47303 words, 2221 today. Management book club at lunch,

I had something planned at lunchtime every single day this week, and then I got sick. It's going to be hard to get the words in, but I can see the end of the story coming. (Daily updates are posted here) Friday 15th 35359 words, 2045 today. Working

My story needs more boom. More explosions, more crises, more stuff going horribly wrong. (Daily updates are posted here) Friday 8th 19175 words, 2050 today. A little writing before work, leadership book club ate my lunchtime, so everything else was at home. The NaNoWriMo validator shaved off about 20 words

My story has turned out to be a prequel to my multiverse series (at potentially four books, I can't call it a trilogy any more). I love incorporating places I know well into the story and I have a great location in downtown St Louis to use for

This is my tenth year participating in NaNoWriMo, hoping for my ninth win (2012 was a blowout for several darned good reasons). I thought I was writing a different story, and it turned out to be a prequel to my series. Book 1 is finished, book 2 is almost done

Ten days.  Keyboards on standby, tea ready to be brewed, notebooks filled with plot debris, friends and fiends recruited, donor halo firmly in place.  We're doing this. I have a stack of index cards in three different colours, with events on relating to the group of characters in

I've spent October thinking I wouldn't have anything to write beyond one cool concept.  The novel is competing for brain real-estate with 30 self defense techniques and 11 kata that I need to have pattern-perfect for my third degree brown belt test in Chinese Kenpo.  I&