NaNoWriMo 2012 is over. I'm so tired. But... There's always that thrill when you cross 50,000 words and see the whole staff of The Office of Letters and Light cheering for you on the winner page. That will never get old. I also wrote more this month (overall across...
You don't have enough words to reach 50,000 yet. Maybe you finished your story before you hit your target word count. Maybe you're just feeling word weary and can't seem to make your characters DO anything. Or maybe you've already hit 50,000 words but you just really...
Every year I end up telling at least a few people about my friend Elmore. That's author Elmore Hammes aka thekanapolisfog over on the NaNoWriMo site if you want to buddy him. He's not only written MANY books and short stories, he's also won every single NaNo since...
Here's the thing. I write very fast. I usually build up a huge lead in the early days of the month and finish well over 50,000 by the end. In the last four years that I've been an ML, I've actually made an effort to do less binge writing and stay on pace because I've...
On Monday, October 29th, Hurricane Sandy came to visit the northeast of the US. When I look at the calendar, that looks so very long ago but it really feels like it just happened. We live in the northeast of NJ which was right in the path of it. I promised I'd do a...
Everything you think you know about Santa Claus is wrong and the truth kind of... sucks. When three candidates are called to interview at the North Pole, they’re expecting to find a dream job gift wrapped for them. But once they meet Big Red himself, they start to...
Today is Election Day here in the USA. If you're American, make sure you get your tushy out there and vote! Of course, it's also still NaNoWriMo. Since a Presidential election only comes around once every four years, it's sort of a novelty for it to be Election Day...
As we've discussed, write-ins are local events that are great for both getting some extra writing done and making friends with other writers. (See:Â How to organize your own write-in event for NaNoWriMo) Once a write-in is on the schedule, though, participants may be...
I wrote a post two years ago called The Curse of NaNoWriMo Week Two: Common problems and their solutions and I suspect I'll never really be able to top that one when it comes to dealing with the unique issues the second week of NaNoWriMo brings. If you're finding...
It doesn't matter whether this is the first thing you've ever written or your thirty first. You've got a new idea. You're completely excited about it. You sit down to write it and... ugh. Because that cursor just blinks forever at you and that blank page just stays...
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