After a frustrating start, I’ve managed to be pretty productive tonight. I cleaned off my desk so I’d have a lot of space to spread out the manuscript printout that I’d scribbled all over…and then couldn’t find the first 27 pages. After a while I remembered (vaguely) that I had …
In the interest of pure honesty, I have only managed 500 words once since making my new goals five days ago. Part of me feels like a failure and part of me has decided that I’m going on vacation in three days and bugger those goals. I find myself frustrated. …
OK I am setting writing goals for myself starting today. I’m going to make myself write 500 words of my short story before I get online. I’ve decided that I have two years of warning before my job goes away, and what if I try to position myself so that …
I rewrote the beginning of Shaper so that the first two hundred words are snappier, have less drama but more action, and hopefully get to the catalyst event quicker. How sad is it that this feels like a major accomplishment?
I was having a conversation with megburden about this scene. It made up about ~3500 words out of the ~36k I managed from NaNo09, but this 1% turned out to change the course of a lot of the novel from here on out. The Goblin Market became a character of …
27378 / 50000 words. 55% done! Whew! The goblin market was a great idea yesterday, and the magic hat and gloves was a great idea today. From now on I’m going to put on my magic hat if I get stuck. I know it’ll get me unstuck. I had a …
Today was going to be my 5,000-word day. It had to be. I really wanted to be caught up to 25k by the end of the weekend, but I spent all yesterday doing genealogy of my main character since I needed to know who was alive when in order to …
17561 / 50000 words. 35% done! I’m traveling on historically shaky ground tonight, because I don’t know much about the Roaring Twenties. But I had a good writing day. 3,739 words just today! Also, the formatting is a little strange because I’m writing in Q10, which saves files as .txt. …
10377 / 50000 words. 21% done! Woohoo! I earned my “Procrastination” NaNoWriMo Merit Badge over the weekend by cleaning instead of working on the novel while skipping writing for three days in a row. Today I earned my “Secret Noveling” badge by writing at work. Yes, yes, I know. *cough* …
I’m not even talking about today, because I haven’t written yet today. I took yesterday off. I had a headache and was exhausted and just decided not to stress over it. I have the weekend ahead of me and that’s my best writing time for NaNo. Of course, I woke …