News on the NaNoWriMo front: I did manage to win. It was definitely NOT pretty, and I’m definitely NOT going back to the story now that I have my 50,000 words completed, but at least I can say that I have won successfully two out of two years in a row. What can I say? […]
I have come to an important decision regarding my Nano novel. Namely, that when I am finished with the 50,000 words, it is going to be put aside. I actually made this decision a few nights ago, and it’s been a struggle not to stop writing since. After all, there’s revisions on The Recruited to
My binge is complete. I have everything finished, I’m caught up in the class, and my grades are pretty damn good. Hallelujah! In other news, I’ve had an 8-10 page essay assigned for Victorian Literature that is due–you guessed it–right in the middle of Nanowrimo. That might very well kill me. On the plus side, it’s
I’ve been doing a ton of writing lately, to the point where it’s become hard for me to focus on homework and, you know, practical things. I’ve finished writing chapter thirteen of The Lost, which was super difficult because of the subject matter. I seem to be writing a fair amount of scenes with violence
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So, much to my own shock and surprise, I’ve already rewritten chapter one of The Recruited, which is the first novel in my Nowhere to Hide trilogy. It literally got done on top of my character journal entries last Friday night/Saturday morning. I think I wrote over seven thousand words on Friday, which resulted in
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Since the start of this school year, I have been doing an independent study project with a T.A. and member of a graduate writing program to workshop last year’s Nano novel in the hope of making it ready for publication. (Just thought I’d like to mention that, unlike many Nano participants, I did outline this
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The new Nanowrimo website is up and running! I suppose I don’t need to elaborate upon how excited this makes me. I may decide to update my information tonight, just to avoid putting off doing homework. (Who am I kidding, I’d be updating because it’s fun!) I have an outline for this year’s story, minor
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. . . that I finished the 100 Drabbles of Summer Challenge with seven days to go! Rock and roll, baby! Funny how I feel as though I’ve just gotten my life back. Just in time to start on another writing project. Massive sigh. My work here is never done. Still, I AM TRIUMPHANT.
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Wow, this may be the first actual blog-like entry I’ve posted in months. I mean, I’ve been a regular here with the 100 Drabbles of Summer Challenge, and various memes, as well as at community, where I’m posting. But still, I haven’t much kept up my blog because, really, when you’re trying to do as
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So, for those of you who are unaware, which is probably all of you, I am starting a new writing project for the summer. An LJ community called is doing a 100 drabbles of Summer Challenge, in which one strives to write 100 prompts of 100 words apiece between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Because
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