Well, when the NaNoWriMo month started, I had a lot of energy and momentum in writing my novel. However, when Week Two was well under way, exactly what No Plot? No Problem! predicted had happened: my steam disappeared. The “wow!” factor of the whole thing had disappeared. Now what I see, instead of long expanses [...]
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A picture is worth 1000 words, right?
So I was thinking… a picture is worth 1000 words, right? In my novel, there’s a lot of different places that readers* will need to be able to see on a map, to help them make sense of the story**. To help me write the novel, I started making a very, very rough map of [...]
A NaNoWriMo novel update
If you take a looksie in the sidebar, you’ll see my NaNoWriMo word count thus far. As of the writing of this post, it’s 5263. I was able to punch out about 1500 words tonight, after slacking for the most part the past few days. I let my analytical thinking get to me – I [...]
A few tips for NaNoWriMo writers
I’ve received a couple of tips from people about how to make the whole novel-writing process go a bit smoother for NaNoWriMo. Here they are, as well as a couple that I’ve thought of.
Find some music you love, crank it up, and then start writing. (Thanks, Brendan)
Don’t think about it too much. I really, really [...]
Writing with wreckless abandon
Just a bit of an update on my novel-writing for NaNoWriMo. I’m finding that after my initial burst of “let’s go!”, I’ve slowed down tremendously. It’s November 3, and Google Docs is telling me that I’ve only written 2180 words. That’s certainly far more than I’ve ever written in the past when trying to write [...]
