We decided to participate in NaNoWriMo some time in September, about a month and a half before the November 1 start date. This would be the time to start plotting and planning, but of course that is not what I did initially. I went back to some of my stalling techniques.Some years ago, I bought …
Set me a task! Give me a deadline!
Like so many aspiring authors (to carry on a theme), I had visions galore of what it would be like. I subscribed to Writers Digest, I bought books on writing, had several notebooks filled with journal material - but I still didn't start any real writing projects. I searched in vain for that perfect tool, …
A first draft in just over a month?
Like so many others, I always thought I had a book inside me that needed to be written. Oddly enough, this first novel is not that book. At the urging of a friend, I participated in National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. The goal was 50,000 words in 30 days.I had always thought about "my" …
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I have created this blog to describe the journey of writing, revising, editing, and completing my first novels. I am indebted to NaNoWriMo for the structure (and panic) of a deadline, and Stephen King's On Writing for the freedom to trust in the discovery method of writing.
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