Archive for November, 2007
NaNoWriMo lessons for November 2008
You might well think I’m insane to already be considering my next attempt at NaNoWriMo, but it turned out that writing a draft of a novel wasn’t as hard as I expected, especially with the bonus pressure of a deadline and people watching me.
But I also learned a lot from the experience and come November [...]
I’m a NaNoWriMo winner!
Panic over. I’ve finished the first draft of my novel. Not only have I become a NaNoWriMo winner (hence the special icon they gave me on the right), I’ve even managed to fulfill my New Year’s Resolution to write a novel in 2007.
Yay me! There’s a lot more work to be done on this manuscript [...]
Big, big NaNoWriMo panic!
So, almost a week ago I posted in a panic that I had just a week or so more to get from 21,000 words to 50,000 in this November novel-writing challenge. Now it’s almost the end of Wednesday, the third last day of November. Things are going OK, in fact probably according to plan: my [...]
NaNoWriMo panic
So it’s the start of Day 22 of the NaNoWriMo challenge to write 50,000 words of a novel during November. I’ve written 21,606 words. HELP!
I love statistics, but not these ones: I’ve written 43.2% of the required words, but 70% of the time has passed. But there are a few things in my favour. It’s [...]
November (and NaNoWriMo) - more than half gone!
Can anybody out there confirm for me that it really, truly already is November 17 (or 16 in some time zones, and perhaps that extra half day at the end of November will help my NaNoWriMo quest)?
When I started this challenge of writing a novel in November (or at least 50,000 words of one), I [...]
Did I jinx Norman Mailer?
I just caught up with the news that American novelist Norman Mailer died on Saturday, which struck me as unusual timing. Why? Because it was just last Friday that I started reading one of his books for the first time.
Weirdly, I came to know Norman Mailer through his appearance in an episode of the Gilmore [...]
10,000 words and flying
Who would have thought. From a chance comment from Claire (thank you!) that she had seen this blog and would check up on it, I’ve gone from floundering in only-writing-to-be-paid land, to signing up for NaNoWriMo and now to having written over 10,000 words of my novel in just four days.
I’m not saying these are [...]
Signed up for NaNoWriMo
After I recklessly threw in the idea of doing NaNoWriMo into my last post, yet decided against it, I felt like I was somehow ripping myself off. After all, here’s the very chance I need to actually write this novel during 2007. So I’ve signed up. OMG.
For those of you who don’t know, NaNoWriMo stands [...]