NaNo Day 17
27378 / 50000 words. 55% done! Whew! The goblin market was a great idea yesterday, and the magic hat and gloves was a great idea today. From now on I’m going to put on my magic hat if I get stuck. I know it’ll get me unstuck. I had a…
If this isn’t the pit of despair, it’s the gap or at least the crevice of it
Today was going to be my 5,000-word day. It had to be. I really wanted to be caught up to 25k by the end of the weekend, but I spent all yesterday doing genealogy of my main character since I needed to know who was alive when in order to…
NaNo Day 12
17561 / 50000 words. 35% done! I’m traveling on historically shaky ground tonight, because I don’t know much about the Roaring Twenties. But I had a good writing day. 3,739 words just today! Also, the formatting is a little strange because I’m writing in Q10, which saves files as .txt.…
Day 9 Word Count
10377 / 50000 words. 21% done! Woohoo! I earned my “Procrastination” NaNoWriMo Merit Badge over the weekend by cleaning instead of working on the novel while skipping writing for three days in a row. Today I earned my “Secret Noveling” badge by writing at work. Yes, yes, I know. *cough*…
NaNo day 5 & 6
I’m not even talking about today, because I haven’t written yet today. I took yesterday off. I had a headache and was exhausted and just decided not to stress over it. I have the weekend ahead of me and that’s my best writing time for NaNo. Of course, I woke…
*nervous*
I’m going to the write-in at the 56th and Lafayette Starbucks tonight. I’ve never done one of these before, but since I fell behind last night, I decided it would be a good idea. Heh. Actually I wanted to do one last year but didn’t ever make it happen. This…
NaNoWriMo Day 2
4349 / 50000 words. 9% done! I actually wrote about 3500 of those yesterday in the car on the way home from vacation. Thank goodness someone else was driving! LOL Today I wrote the rest in the carpool on the way home. I tried to write more when I got…
I need NaNo help
So I had been planning to write the fourth book in the Regent’s Castle series this year for NaNo. This would involve lots of research into Illinois history, because I’m planning to weave in white settlement, Native American threads, and European ideas of Faerie, and hopefully along the way come…
Work and work…
Why is it that whenever I am at my day job, I get all excited to work on the novel…and that excitement seems to be killed by the hour-long commute at the end of the day? I sometimes write at lunch, but the conditions around my coworkers aren’t conducive for…
Novel revision update
WC: 1,093 Scenes: >1 LOL! I’m finally really getting to the nitty-gritty of the novel revision. I’ve pretty much completed my line-by-line copy editing, and now I have some scenes to go back and fill in. I’ve got note cards for them all, I know where they go, I know…
