Monthly Archives: November 2006

Whoa! Where have I been??

Lost in the deep forest of NaNoWriMo. Nearly done at a current word count of 45,967. Woot!
I just wanted to take a moment to drop a yay out for the terribly cool construction located here – http://tinyurl.com/p64rv
Check it out, it’s terribly spiffy!

ONE OF THE BEST LITTLE IDEAS EVER

Anne Lamott, author of the fabulous book, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (which I am currently consuming), has a chapter devoted to an idea that surpasses brilliant. One of the phenomenon’s that happens for writers that is both amazingly wonderful and desperately annoying is that excellent ideas for a piece [...]

YOU’RE A BEAUTIFUL AND UNIQUE SNOWFLAKE

I wanted to take a moment to recognize Randy Ingermason for his efforts to spread good tips and tricks for writing, and his bald faced encouragement of struggling fiction writers of all skill levels everywhere. His advice is solid and imminently useful. In particular I’s like to point out his Snowflake Method. [...]

SPRINTS ARE GOOD FOR THE WORDCOUNT

Since NaNoWriMo is consuming my life right now I thought a status report would be good.
As of this moment I am 13,818 words into my goal of 50,000 in the month of November. Not too shabby. In order to keep up the minimum average pace of 1,667 words a day I need to [...]

NaNoWriMo Update

Mycharacters are doing things on their own, and I am enjoying the ride.  I wonder where the story will wind up?
Currently at 12,014 words and rising.