2008 NaNoWriMo
December 27, 2008
- I am now in the process if typing in/rewriting the novel I wrote for National Novel Writing Month. And something very strange is happening, very Twilight Zone.Dee-dee Dee-dee Dee-dee Dee-dee.....The book doesn't feel like mine at all. It feels like I'm typing in some strange thing I found at a yard sale or something. When I first started, I kept stopping and reading my husband parts, then asking ...
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December 17, 2008
- Well, it's that time of year- editing! Every year I look at my Nano novel and shake my head knowing that the editing is going to be way more painful than the writing which is saying something!!This year though the editing has gone amazingly well, probably because I knew halfway through the month that half of my work was going to be given the heave-ho. Once I got rid of the stuff I hated like ...
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December 12, 2008
- Well the month of November is past and I am finally catching up with all the stuff I put on hold while I was busy writing for NaNoWriMo. Did I reach 50,000 words? No. 34, 246. But I did complete the story. I'm not sure, even with a rewrite, that I will reach 50,000. But since I have several short stories that are in the same universe, I figure I have the makings of a book. But for me it was a ...
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December 10, 2008
December 8, 2008
- Writing for 2008 NaNoWrimo was a great way to get started on my next novel. I can't say that what I produced was anything like an actual first draft. It was however, an extended exercise in turning over the concepts that will make for that first draft. In November's writing, I played with potential chapters, scenes, and characters. I created tons of backstory knowing that I won't use that ...
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December 8, 2008
- It took me about a week for the fog of NaNo 2008 to clear, but I did it - I went past the 50,000 word limit by the Nov. 30th deadline. It was one of the most liberating experiences of my life, and I was shocked to find that I could create a piece of Fiction that I actually found has promise. I don't know where I'll be able to take the first draft of my NaNo novel, but I'm actually optimistic; ...
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December 4, 2008
- I crawled across the finish line at noon on the 30th this year. Last year it was 1pm. So if I continue at this rate, I'll finish a day early in about 12 years. Though that's not really true. I'll win early next year. I could have won early this year if I hadn't been slowed down by my friend. We decided to connect our novels so we had some shared scenes. The problem was that we only got the words ...
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December 1, 2008
- People thought I was crazy and even I thought I might be bordering on certifiable, but I did it! I wrote a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. Yeah!Now of course, comes the editing. I have to work on my beginning, a lot of the middle, and the end needs some work lol! But at least I wrote the novel. It's a romance called Down By The Willow Tree and it's my first attempt ever at a novel so I ...
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December 1, 2008
- So I finally tried NaNoWriMo again this year, and I actually finished. You're surprised. I was surprised. I tried it way back in the early '00s, but never made it beyond 20,000 words before I ran out of things to write and called it quits. This year, however, I challenged myself to do it. Write every day. I didn't even have an idea when I started. I had an image of a woman bent over a desk with a ...
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November 30, 2008
- It’s official: I got to 50,000 words by November 30th, and it even draws to an end (kind of). I had to pull a few Nanowrimo-approved dirty tricks to get safely across the finish line, of course, but what matters is I got there in the end, having written every word of it.But that doesn’t mean the work is over just yet.I might be done with it for the purposes of winning Nanowrimo, but for ...
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