DeNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo has taught me a number of very valuable lessons.  First, it's helped me work quickly and efficiently on plotting and organization.  Second, it's shown me that I can, when I've done those things, write a prodigious amount in a short period.  Finally, and most importantly, I've learned that I can't write a novel in the same month that I have a persistent illness, final papers and exams. 

That being said, I've come woefully short of my word count, with only a day and a half left.  I've decided, then, not to give up but to shift my goal to December, when I've not got classes or, God willing, some kind of plague.  I'm calling my own little novel writing month DeNoWriMo and it works the same way.  I'll write, by New Year's Day, 50k words and finish the first draft of my novel.  Here we go...again... Read more!

NaNoWriMo: Week 2

Heading into week two of NaNoWriMo, I've got about 15,000 words done.  Mind you, I have to go back already and write myself out of a corner...BUT I've made an outline now for the whole of it, so that shouldn't happen again and, hey, adding things to make stuff make sense helps the word count.  Not that I'm worried on that front as I've only barely begun to tell my story and have already gotten more than a quarter of the way to the 50k mark. 

Now, back to add some flesh to the skeleton of my outline, then into the story once again... Read more!

NaNoWriMo: Prologue

So I may have signed up for NaNoWriMo this year. And I may need ideas for a novel. Right now, I'm thinking a supernatural teen romance about a love triangle between a mermaid, an angel and a table.

The table would be beautiful and smart and funny, but have one leg shorter than the others. The mermaid and the angel would love it more because of that flaw, though. Read more!