Oh, my goodness, I’ve hit day five! For a good part of the day, I kept thinking to myself, “Yes, today is the day I might stop. It always happens on the fifth day.” But with my thoughts of other Nanowrimo writers all around the world working so hard, and with my indie author friends […]
NaNoWriMo – Day Four
Day Four? It’s a miracle, a miracle, I tell you! I had a busy day at work; it was my one year anniversary at a job I truly enjoy, so that was good. But then I came home and experienced that curtain of fog that overcomes me around 5:30. I think it’s really just a […]
NaNoWriMo – Day Three
So usually when I set a course for a new project, around day three or four, either I let myself falter or real life attempts (and usually succeeds) in stopping me. This time, there was the real life need to attend an HOA meeting that went on for an hour and a half. I’m proud […]
NaNoWriMo – Day Two
So it’s day two of the big experiment, otherwise known as NaNoWriMo, and I’ve written 2,122 words today. It was quite a fun scene to write, as Jack is quite ill, and Oliver is the only one to tend him. Plus I’m very pleased to be sticking to the plan! More importantly, I’m being reminded […]
NaNoWrMo – Trust the Process
I’ve heard about National Novel Writing Month for some years now, but always dismissed it, because I don’t need company while I’m writing. I don’t need the distraction of meetings, and I sure wasn’t interested in sharing my word count with anyone! Nor competing for a symbolic prize. But this year, I signed up, and […]
Building a Sticky Digital Relationship
At the beginning of September, I attended the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer’s Colorado Gold Conference. The best part, as with every writer’s conference, is meeting other writers and talking shop, talking about writing, and about books, and discussing, at length, the pros and cons of the Oxford Comma. One of the panels I went to, […]