Category Archives: 50000 words
National Novel Writing Month [Day 11]: On the comeback trail…
National Novel Writing Month [Day 5]: A few revelations
National Novel Writing Month [Day 4]: The Struggle is Real
This is not a staged photo.
I am currently typing this one-handed.
Buddy–clearly not a patron of the arts.
My workaround for now is just listing notes for each of my characters in MacJournal.
Day 3 consisted of printing out material I’d prepared–outlines, etc., catering to his majesty’s every need, going to the Oregon State-USC football game...and deluding myself that I would easily catch up on word count today.
National Novel Writing Month [Day 2]
Folks, feel free to click right past. These updates are an accountability tool for me. As you can see, I’m well behind pace right now, but I’ve made up deficits before.
My less than specific story description [excerpt from an email to Sarra of heartbreathings.com]: I keep messing with my plotting strategy in my head. Part of me wants to avoid heavy dialogue because it really slows down the pace, even without the annoying punctuation. Part of me is considering working from three directions [characters] who will converge at various points in the story. Who knows?