As I mentioned last month, I only managed 50,503 words in November. That was enough to “win” NaNoWriMo, but it[…]
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NaNoWriMo: Day 30 – The finish line
I made it! As you can see from the glorious graphic, I’m officially a NaNoWriMo “winner” – along with 42,008[…]
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Barring major accident or illness, I’m pretty confident about completing NaNoWriMo now. But not the novel! It feels like I’m[…]
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The novel’s still ticking along nicely. Each day, with no planning at all, more of the plot and characters emerge.[…]
Read moreNaNoWriMo: Day 7 – Progress report
One week in to NaNoWriMo and the blank-screen method is still working for me! 11,949 words so far, a whisker[…]
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I’ve read about writers who just sit down and start writing, so I thought that’s what I’d try for NaNoWriMo.[…]
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Writers at work: E. L. Doctorow
INTERVIEWER Do you have any idea how a project is going to end? . DOCTOROW Not at that point, no.[…]
Read moreNaNoWriMo’s coming!
NaNoWriMo – originally short for National Novel Writing Month – is an annual internet-based creative writing event that takes place[…]
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Writers at work: Ernest Hemingway
INTERVIEWER: How much rewriting do you do? HEMINGWAY: It depends. I rewrote the ending to Farewell to Arms, the last[…]
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