Category: my novel’s progress
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Friday’s Findings: My 50K Novel Week 4
What inspired the novel I’m writing? Day 22 I’ve never mentioned what kind of book I’m writing. The genre is fantasy. The inspiration is the Bauhaus House, an art movement in Germany that preceded the Nazi regime’s takeover. The Bauhaus House was the school that was the center of an art movement in the 1920s…
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Bulk up your word count
I have a few suggestions for bulking up one’s word count when doing a 50K word rough draft in 30 days. None of these are “have-to.” Just do the ones that work with your way of writing: Again, these are just suggestions. Use the ones that help you write your rough draft quickly. one’s that…
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Friday’s Findings: My 50K Novel Week 3
I started the week three behind in my word count, but I was on vacation this week. Did I catch up? Day 15 And we’re off—week three. Work was very busy, and even though I sat in front of a computer all day, I was exhausted when I got home. I ate supper, Watched an…
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Friday’s Findings: My 50K Novel Week 2
As an alternate to NaNoWriMo, I’m doing a 50K word rough draft of a novel in 30 days. Here’s how the second week went: Day 8: My city has the best coffee shops. I’m sitting in one before I go to work and I’m going to outline some unfinished scenes. I swore I wouldn’t do…
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One Way to Write a Scene
So, I’m doing this thing where I am writing the rough draft in a special way: pseudo screenplay. I recommend doing this if you are having trouble getting the scene started. Otherwise, I recommend writing the scene in a normal fashion, a linear development. If that does not work, try to layer in each fiction…
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Friday’s Findings: My 50K Novel Week 1
I’ve decided to prove that I can write fifty thousand words in thirty days on my own — without anyone or any organization giving me a deadline. Here are the parameters I set for myself: Here is how my first week went: Day 1: It’s a Thursday and in the middle of the work week.…
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Friday’s Findings: My First 50K Novel
On Friday, October 31, 2008, I woke up to the radio talking about something called National Novel Writing Month. Write fifty thousand words by the end of November? Impossible! But I wanted to try it because I’m crazy. So, after work that Friday, I checked out the NaNoWriMo website. I spent my time making a…
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Do Your Own 50K Novel
The National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) website may be going inactive, but the spirit of NaNoWriMo does not have to die. It’s an opportunity for writers who have participated in the past to write their own fifty-thousand words in thirty days. And it can be any month they want. And they can start on any…
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Friday’s Findings: Write in Chunks. Small Chunks.
Look for those ten-minute gifts of time. Although 10,000 is not a magic number, that’s the number of steps I try to get every day. I used to look for that big chunk of time to get to that mystical numeral. But some days, that just wasn’t possible. By accident, I discovered I can get…
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