Tag: novella

  • NaNoWriMo Day 28: Over the finish line

    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…

  • Friday’s Findings: July 2022 Camp NaNoWriMo Update #1

    Friday’s Findings: July 2022 Camp NaNoWriMo Update #1

    It’s Thursday evening and I’m going to wrap up my first week of Camp NaNoWriMo July 2022. Word count: 8482. This time, I’m working on three projects at once: 2 novels and a novella. I’m writing 333 words on all 3 each day. It’s simple. It’s fun. And I’m able to dabble a little bit…

  • CampNaNoWriMo Update #1

    CampNaNoWriMo Update #1

    Reached one of my goals for Camp NaNoWriMo: completed a draft of my novella; spending the rest of the month working on my novel, or one of them at least. I’m going to do voice journals for my characters and write a few summaries of unfinished scenes. All this goes toward my word count. I’m…

  • Friday’s Findings

    Friday’s Findings

    My first week of NaNoWriMo 2021 has gone fantastic. It’s day four and I’m already past 10,000 words. I’ve had some years of NaNo in which I just wasn’t into it, but this year I’m on fire. I think it’s because I did some planning. I created an outline with a summary of scenes, and…

  • Friday’s Findings

    Friday’s Findings

    From last Monday: I’m on “staycation” this week. As far as my writing, here are some things I promise myself to do with my extra time this week: For NaNoWriMo next month, I promise to do practice writing sprints every day. I will work on my current WIPs. Also for NaNo, I will further develop…