Tag: National Novel Writing Month
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NaNoWriMo 23 Update
This is Piper. He is a character from my NaNoWriMo 2023. Piper is based on a puppy i fostered several years ago. I miss him.
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NaNoWriMo Update: Playing Catch Up This Weekend
Last Saturday I came down with Covid symptoms. First time ever (as far as I know). For the next few days, I wrote only a little. Result: got behind in my word count. I’ve been off work all week, so I wrote all week and got ahead, right? Nope. Like I said, I wrote very…
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And We’re Off: First Day of NaNoWriMo 2023
I belong to the writing community of Writing Mastery Academy online and I wrote this in the National Novel Writing Month discussion group this morning: “I woke up about 10 minutes before midnight, and figured I should go ahead and do a couple of word sprints. I got about 800 words in one hour, which…
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Use AI to Outline your NaNoWriMo?
Are you desperate for a NaNoWriMo idea? Maybe you should consider using AI technology to create a 30-day outline for November. Maybe I’ll get hate for this, but I’m curious how people will respond to this idea. I’m sure it’s already been done. I’m not endorsing AI to write a novel, but I see value in using…
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Should I Do NaNoWriMo?
Should I do NaNoWriMo this year? Whether or not I do is in question. Here’s why: I’m currently working on three novels. Yes, I’m crazy. Currently, the momentum I have working on all three is going well. I don’t want to break it. I also have three or four outlines of potential novels. I want…
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NaNoWriMo Day 29: Seeking the senses
On Thanksgiving Day, I accompanied my mom and her husband to volunteer at a church serving T-day meals to the homeless and low-income families. It was a nice break from working on my NaNoWriMo project. The three of us ending up on the team of volunteers who picked up paper plates and cups from those…
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NaNoWriMo Day 28: Over the finish line
I wrote the last 2800 words yesterday and reach 50K. I won NaNoWriMo 2022! My project is called Normous, and it’s a novella. It is the fifth episode in my series I call Consortium. In my blog posts throughout this month, I described how I outlined Normous in three steps, and then spent the rest…
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NaNoWriMo Day 27: Home Stretch
Two milestones yesterday: I reached 45k words. And I finally did a 6k day. I did several sprints all day long. Most were 30 minute sprints and a couple were 45 minute sprints. And I still managed to get non-writing stuff done. In between writing sprints, I would exercise for 15-20 minutes. Or I would…
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NaNoWriMo Day 26: Background noise
I finally reached 40k yesterday. I tried to write 6,000 words total, but after 3700, I just stopped and started watching a movie. Sometimes, when I’m writing, I’ll throw on a movie in the genre I’m writing, something I’ve watched a million times before, and write. Because it’s not something new to watch, I’m not…
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