This is My Brilliant Mistakes post for NaDruWriNi. In direct violation of blog protocol, most recent updates are at the bottom — because it’s easier to read things top to bottom. But I’ll summarize the most recent update here at the top, so you know whether to bother scrolling down. Recently: Done 8:01pm: We begin …
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NaSiUFToMuMo
It’s the third day of NaNoWriMo: I wrote 1,037 words the first day (well under the 1,667 words/day target), and none yesterday. So that project is well behind. It’s also the third day of DrawMo! I sketched a red onion the first day. It came out much more squished-looking than the round and firm original. …
Another year, another novel
Today I discovered a recently deceased mole in my dining room. I don’t know which of my two cats dispatched the little guy and brought him inside. The mole is actually fairly big for a mole, being about three inches long and medium plump. This was not as gruesome a sight as you might think. …
Fine!
I am so very, very done. I finished NaNoWriMo 2005 with a ravishing total of 50,633 words. Of those, 24,725 were tossed together in the final week. Key lessons learned: I accomplish more writing outside of my home than inside it. It is much, much better to make a little progress every day than to …
In the home stretch
I’m currently at 42,567 NaNoWriMo words, after a 5K word blast yesterday and another 1K jolt this morning. I plan two short sessions today with the aim of reaching 4.5K words today, leaving just 4K for the final day. As for the actual content of the novel: You know how some writers repeatedly explore the …
Creeping ever closer
First holiday music played this year: Johnny Mathis, “Christmas Is….” The cheesier, the better, I say.
Deathless prose
I have, to this point, created 30908 words of fiction in the month of November. And it’s all deathless prose. Yes, every word is deathless, in the sense of being zombie-like, undead, breathing with a particular non-life that makes the internal editor in me weep, bitterly. But then again, having pushed through to the second …
Half way mark
Deadlines are our friends.
I am a novel-writing machine
Now only 10,630 words behind schedule!
Time to Rally
New quota: 2400 words per day. Still doable!