I have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, as do some of you others. I’ve had two cortisone shots in each wrist over the past seven years, and hopefully can put off surgery for another ten years or so. But NaNoWriMo is a fun time for those of us with CTS and other…
While I was on break this morning I spoke with our art director. Told her I have a character who’s a rich young bachelor philanthropist who wants to support the arts in his community. She gave me some ideas of how he would spend his time and money. Networking is…
1,439 / 85,000 (1.7%) WC: 1439 The third day is where I started kicking NaNo’s ass last year. Let’s hope that holds true for this year, too. BUT – I now have plot cards written up through the second major plot twist — and that’s about 2/3 of the way…
430 / 85,000 (0.5%) WC: 430 LOL – what a start, eh? But since it was just last night that the plot bunny bit, I spent much of my writing time today plotting and such. Tomorrow I expect a prodigious word count. *grins*
So I have some opportunities here. And as it is the last day before NaNoWriMo begins, I feel it is time to confront these matters. I have to decide what I’m going to write. Until a week and a half ago I was wibbling over lack of plottiness in my…
Yes, it came out of the printer that way. And yes, it ruined several pages by leaving its remains in the printer.
arcaedia gave some useful information, in this entry, regarding word counts for novels. I’m excited, as last night the discovery of an absolutely lovely Waterboys song gave me my title idea for NaNo. I always do better once I have a good title. It gives me an idea of the…
A fun wordcount meter The Zokutou Clause for those of you who have won at NaNo once already.
Because there are only four days until registration for NaNoWriMo begins… (and I just realized that while doing some edits over at my Geocities webspace, I accidentally deleted my NaNo Resources page. *sigh*
Man, there’s nothing like spending an afternoon looking through stories you wrote ten years ago and reading the critiques from your creative writing classes (including the one where I got a C for the assignment and was told basically, “Way to write every cliche in the book, now scrap it…
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