I did it. Somehow. After Day 28, I was right around 36,000 words. I had all but given up, but once Saturday came around, I decided to put ‘er in overdrive. I wrote about 5,000 on Saturday, then the remaining 9,000 while I watched football on Sunday.
Speaking of that, how ’bout them Steelers — they [...]
Category Archives: Writing
NaNoWriMo 2008 - Winner!
December 1, 2008 – 10:12 am
NaNoWriMo 2008 - Day 29
November 29, 2008 – 9:00 am
Oh, God. I find myself in a gigantic hole with 2 days left to go. What a hellish month. There have been so many days that I haven’t been able to write at all. This has, by far, been the most difficult year for me yet in trying to write a novel in November.
Today I [...]
NaNoWriMo 2008 - Day 5
November 5, 2008 – 9:27 am
Things are going differently this year than they have the past two. The biggest difference: I’m behind. The last couple years I would get ahead as much as possible the first week or so, because I know that the going gets much slower as the month wears on.
But not this year. I have an outline [...]
NaNoWriMo 2008 - Day 2
November 2, 2008 – 6:54 pm
Yeah, my story sucks. I just realized this today as I attempted to craft an important part of the story’s introduction, and everything went wrong. It just wasn’t happening according to the outline.
That’s right — I had an outline this year. I spent the last couple weeks of October putting an outline together. It’s a [...]