We have achieved a state of NaNo
I finished my NaNo novel today! It needs lots of editing but who cares? Celebrate now, edit later. I love a good first draft. Happy reading.
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2010
Bitter Marmalade: The Tale of a Gum Paw Detective.
The NaNoWriMo novel is going well this past week. I only hope now not to run out of plot twists before I run out of words. One thing I have learned from these fast-writing marathons is, I don’t seem to write much better when I have more time. Fitting in 1667 words a day is
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Catching Up with NaNoWriMo
The month is half over and I am not halfway to my writing goal. To finish NaNoWriMo on time, I would have to write 2000 words per day without skipping any days. So far I have been getting up at 5:00 am on weekdays but I still haven’t been able to keep up. Today, I’m
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In the morning, early
Hello to any fellow NaNoWriMo’s. I’m in the Toronto region under Cerealboxreader if you are inclined to join me. Hear all about it on my LJ account where I have a number of writing friends. We like to cheer each other on. In the morning, early
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NaNoWriMo & Packaging this week.
So far NaNoWriMo is going well. My wrists are sore, but they were before anyway. I’ve run out of plot ideas for the night but I’m not worried. I can always think of more crazy twists during my commute to work in the morning. For now I’m going to celebrate the small victory of meeting
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First installment for tonight.
First installment for tonight. I started NaNoWriMo yesterday. It’s madness but I can’t help it. The idea of writing for two hours worth of new material per day for a whole month seems like very good discipline to me.
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Gotta NaNoWriMo
There are so many reasons why November is bad timing for me but this year I’m going to do it. I’m going to do NaNoWriMo. Here’s the link for my profile. I will be writing under the alias “Cerealboxreader.” I will be attempting to write a 50 000 word novel between Nov. 1 and Nov.
Positive Rejection
They say you have to paper a wall with rejection slips but I’ve been writing plays for school and novel-length manuscripts for so long, I just don’t submit that often. Perhaps I’m making a mistake. I found out this week that a rejection can sometimes give just the right kind of encouragement. I just got
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First Draft Done
Yeeeehaaaaw! I completed the first draft last night. My wonderful husband took my son and I out for Hakka Chinese food to celebrate. The other thing I did to celebrate was read M.T. Anderson’s Whales on Stilts, a hilarious parody of children’s adventure, horror and mystery books. I laughed so hard I ruptured my blubber.
Around the Moon in 85 Pages
I have a new writing project. I drafted next year’s school play in July, so now it’s time to move on to something bigger. It’s an SF comedy with lots of laughs and suspense aimed at a middle school audience. So far I have written 85 pages. This has been one of the easiest writing
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