NaNoWriMo Concluding Statistics: Words Written This Week: 12,695 Total Word Count: 50,129 Percentage Complete (assuming 50K words): 100%! I WIN! Chapters Written: Prologue + 22 (and part of 23) Final Week Surprises and Challenges: Based on my progress earlier this month and my determination to get this done, I never truly despaired that I was going to fail to reach 50,000 […]
What’s Making Me Happy In November
November has been a happy/stressful time in my personal life (my daughter was born; I’m writing a novel in a month) and a traumatic/stressful time in our country. To ease the stress for both me and you, I am reinstating a series of posts listing the little things that are making me happy. I used to call this […]
NaNoWriMo, Week 3
NaNoWriMo Week 3 Statistics: Words Written This Week: 11,783 Total Word Count: 37,434 Percentage Complete (assuming 50K words): 75% Chapters Written: 17 How it’s going so far: I was astonished when I realized, last Wednesday, that I had already surpassed the total number of words I’ve ever written on a novel during my previous best month (20-25K; I’ve […]
This Is My Mission For The Next 4 Years
Like many of you, I’ve spent the last several days thinking about the next four years, and what they will bring. We are on the cusp of big changes to our society and the governing of our country that will force each of us to evaluate what we believe, and figure out how to enact […]
NaNoWriMo, Week 2
NaNoWriMo Week 2 Statistics: Words Written This Week: 11,817 Total Word Count: 25,651 Percentage Complete (assuming 50K words): Just over 50%! Chapters Written: 12 How it’s going so far: I hit a couple of blocks this week. The first was on Wednesday, the day after the election. I woke up exhausted, in shock, and grieving. (I’m still experiencing […]
NaNoWriMo, Week 1
I’ve always been intrigued by the idea of National Novel-Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). For those who are unfamiliar, this is a month-long event that takes place every November, in which participants challenge themselves (and each other) to write a full-length novel (50,000 words, approximately the length of The Great Gatsby) in thirty days. It’s an immensely […]