Andrew M. Friday

Tag: National Novel Writing Month

  • NaNoWriMo Day 4: the 2nd step

    NaNoWriMo Day 4: the 2nd step

    I’m done with steps 1 and 2 of my writing process. I’ll be spending the next week marching through step 3 which is expanding my scene paragraph summaries into 5 paragraphs. These 5 paragraphs are a brain dump of details I may or may not include down the road: scraps of descriptions, dialogue, interior monologues…

  • Nanowrimo Day 3: The 1st step

    Nanowrimo Day 3: The 1st step

    The first step I took on day 1 of NaNoWriMo was to take the phrases I created to describe the potential scenes and turn them into complete sentences. For example: Phrase: Bandonn orphaned as a child Complete sentence: In this flashback of Bandonn as a little boy in the burg where he grew up, The…

  • NaNoWriMo Day 2: My four-steps

    NaNoWriMo Day 2: My four-steps

    Was my first day of NaNoWriMo 2022 was a huge success? I wrote over 1700 words. The story is coming along wonderfully and I’ve come up with some ideas as I’ve composed.  During Preptober, I made a list of phrases describing scenes. I also compiled a list of characters for the two novellas I’m writing…

  • Last day of Preptober

    Last day of Preptober

    It’s October 31st. Yes, yes, it’s Halloween. But it’s also the last day of Preptober. I’ve been prepping for NaNoWriMo this past month. But, really, I did it all in the first few days. I’ve been working on my other WIP, Oblivion’s Hope. My determination to get that novel done is why I haven’t been…

  • Friday’s Findings: July 2022 Camp NaNoWriMo Update #4

    Friday’s Findings: July 2022 Camp NaNoWriMo Update #4

    Working on more than one WIP at once Well, Camp NaNoWriMo will be over Sunday night. So far, I’ve written 25,7000 words out of my 25,000 goal. But one of my less tangible goals was to successfully navigate three WIPs simultaneously. I’ve definitely learned some things about writing three WIP at once. Good things. For…

  • Friday’s Findings: July 2022 Camp NaNoWriMo Update #3

    Friday’s Findings: July 2022 Camp NaNoWriMo Update #3

    Since last November’s NaNoWriMo, I’ve been using what I call the scratchpad method for my writing process. Ever since, I’ve been honing and improving it for my way of writing. Each month, I start a new document and almost every day, I write whatever for that day. That could be a scene for two for…

  • Friday’s Findings: July 2022 Camp NaNoWriMo Update #2

    Friday’s Findings: July 2022 Camp NaNoWriMo Update #2

    Word count: 17,000 I recently watched YouTuber Nick Sturgeon’s video Camp NaNoWriMo: Have Fun with Your Writing. One thing he said stuck out to me: “It’s okay. You had a bad day. Today things didn’t go according to plan. But that’s okay. This is just Camp Nanowrimo. It’s a practice. It’s a first attempt at…

  • Friday’s Findings: Red and Black

    Friday’s Findings: Red and Black

    When I recently reviewed the final draft of my novella, Traption, I used this trick to keep track of where I leave off when I am done for the day. I start with my whole manuscript in red. As I go through each paragraph, I turn it black when I’m done. This let’s me know…

  • Camp NaNoWriMo Update #5

    Camp NaNoWriMo Update #5

    Camp NaNoWriMo for April 2022 is over. Did I reach my goals? Yes and no. No, I did not reach my word goal of 15,000 words. I got to 11,600 words. And I’m happy with that. I had a blast discovering more about my story (a better goal than word count). I learned more about…