Tag: noveling
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NaNoWriMo 2023 Week One Update
Usually for NaNoWriMo, I go all out and just write with abandon (which is part of their motto), in a frantic race toward the end. This year, I’m doing something a little different. I want to try and find out what makes November so successful for me. Is it the high of starting a new…
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November Results and December Goals
November was a strange mix of fast and slow, creativity and drought, and work and play. It’s hard to believe it’s already over and we’re now in the last month of 2020. Here’s how my month went and how much I accomplished: November Results: NaNoWriMo NaNoWriMo 2020 went great as far as the straight challenge…
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Writer Life Lesson #27: Make Writing Work For You
Most of us who call ourselves writers are often more than just writers. We have day jobs, hobbies, families, pets, and probably a thousand possibilities for distraction every second of every day. Sometimes, writing can seem impossible. This last month, I wrote for Camp NaNoWriMo and for the first two thirds of the month, I…
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April Results and May Goals
Well, another month of writing and goals done. April is always a bit of a tough month for me, with difficult anniversaries, but it ended up working out well in the end. Goals from April: Camp NaNoWriMo: 40,180 Ghost House Heart: 14,770 I finished Under Grey Skies with a total of 138,799 words and 11,247…
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Camp NaNoWriMo News
Hello Everyone! April is just around the corner, and that means Camp NaNoWriMo! This year, I’m working on two projects. Finishing up my project from NaNoWriMo 2019, and starting a new project. Under Grey Skies: Doing my best to finish up my 2019 NaNo Novel by the end of April. Book Nine of the LOVED…
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August Results and September Plans
August Results August has been a very interesting month for writing. I’ve been distracted by a fewcthins here and there and working on a few projects that have been super fun this month. The Kiss: 25737 Seven short pieces for Hidge Week (You can start with Day One): 3507 LE poetry (Winter Here): 40 Fanfiction:…
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NaNoWriMo: What it Means and What it Stands For
Every November, millions of people write as many words as they can in an attempt to form their very own novel. They find the time between work, school, family, holidays and sometimes life in general, to attempt to reach 50,000 words. Many of them succeed in the first day, and many of them blast past…
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What I’m Writing: Camp NaNoWriMo
This year, in both April and July, hundreds of thousands of people will be writing a novel in a month. Each one of those hundreds of thousands of people will write their own novel, whether it be five pages or five hundred. Fingers will be flying, pens will be scribbling and writers will be writing.
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Ideas and Where to Find Them
Ideas are everywhere, and can come from anything. Pictures, songs, shows, everyday conversation, anyone and anything can spark an idea. Sometimes, the more ideas you find, the more that keep popping up when you least expect them. Sometimes, all we need to do to find ideas is look, listen and feel the world all around…
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Writer Life Lesson #2: Write What You Want
Fads are everywhere. Things become popular one day and are gone the next. Writing is no stranger to fads and popular ideas are everywhere. When one idea becomes popular several copies follow. Think about how popular vampires have been, or dystopian novels. Where one pops up, five more follow. In five or ten years we’ll…
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Doubt and Writing
If I had a dollar for every time I doubted an idea, I would be rich, and not have a single word written, nor any novels or short stories completed. Plainly, I would not be a writer, but a doubter. Every writer, at some point or another, doubts their work, their ideas or their talent.…
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Writer Life Lesson #1: Write It Down
Being a writer means writing, but sometimes writing doesn’t come as easy as we might like. Sometimes the ideas don’t come flowing as a raging waterfall splashing the exact words we want on the page. Sometimes they show up when we have no way of remembering. Sometimes the ideas keep us up at night, or…