Winner of Nanowrimo 2008!

jhatch — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:53:49 -0800

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 ...

Nanowrimo: Report from Halfway Day

jhatch — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:52:05 -0800

[Note: I originally posted this to my regular blog, Ynpossybull!, on 11/15.] Let me be brief with the bad news: I'm behind. Almost impossibly behind. As in, a little bit over ten thousand words behind. Oy. Mostly this is because it has been impossible to make the minimum every single day: life happens.And I feel guilty just typing these few lines, since I could be working on the novel instead. ...

The Release of Election Day

jhatch — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:47:31 -0800

Well, Election Day is finally here.Last night I joked to my wife that the moment this election ends, I will regain three hours a day for work.It's a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. With few immediate deadlines and appointments beyond a (self-imposed) daily post to at least one of the blogs I write on, it's easier than it really should be to keep reloading my favorite news sources, to ...

NaNoWriMo '08!

jhatch — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:48:39 -0700

I've got a busy month ahead of me, with all kinds of articles to research and write, along with some potential changes in where my writing is going to regularly appear, and how much blogging I'm going to do each day (namely, it might increase). Even without that possibility, I can predict that my work schedule is going to be pretty full.But that's no excuse for not writing a novel this November. ...