I realize I haven’t actually posted since the first week of November. At all. No check ins. No funny stuff, no nothin’. I decided a few days before the start of November that I was going to actually seriously try NaNoWriMo this year. My tactic was to actually try getting up early to write, something […]
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Sunday Summary and #ROW80 Update
I haven’t been posting much lately. Evil Day Job has been nuts and I’ve thrown myself whole hog into National Novel Writing Month. I cleared 18k words last week. My secret? When Daylight Savings Time left…I kept getting up at the same time. So 5:15 I sat down for my first writing sprint of the […]
5 Tools to Increase NaNoWriMo Productivity
Whether you’re participating in National Novel Writing Month or not, chances are, if you’re a writer, you suffer from procrastination and having the attention span of a squirrel on crack. [iframe src=”http://giphy.com/embed/39CqBhycuM5kQ” width=”500″ height=”202″ frameBorder=”0″ webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen][/iframe] When your writing time is limited, it’s important that you make the most of it! Here’s a […]
And The Word of the Day is…EPIC
I cannot express to you how incredibly HYPER I am right now. I don’t actually usually get bitten by the NaNo bug, but DAMN have I got the fever this year. The fact that it coincided with the END of Act 3–yes, that’s right THE END of the Dreaded Valley of the Shadow of the […]
Midweek #ROW80 Update
Well I just got my dishwasher unclogged, so everything else about today should be awesome. Seriously, you just can’t even imagine how awful it is having a non-functional dishwasher, y’all. In the last house ours flat died and there was this funky pipe running in behind it that couldn’t be moved, and it took us […]
Monday Miscellany
I think I’ve already hit the high point of my day. It was 37 degrees when I ran this morning, and I conquered all the hills and ran the entire way. I felt a very strong desire to listen to the Rocky theme while taking my shower. It was actually my short run because I’d eased up […]
Noodling NaNoWriMo
I’ve been thinking about NaNo since yesterday. Back in…I don’t know, maybe February or March this year, I did some prowling around on the regional boards looking to connect with some other writers. Sent some messages. Never heard anything. Well apparently I didn’t have it set to notify me when someone responded because a few […]
About That Life Thing
Since NaNoWriMo ended, I’ve been running a few tweets each day in my stream to help drum up some awareness and interest in A Round of Words in 80 Days. My tagline for the challenge is The Writing Challenge That Knows You Have A Life, which I felt was pretty accurate as a description since […]
Why NaNoWriMo Is Like A Crash Diet
I have seen a LOT of NaNo excitement and a lot of NaNo invective being tossed around on Twitter the last week or so. I think a lot of anti-NaNo folks feel about NaNo the way I feel about election years–SHADDUP ABOUT IT ALREADY. Because, yes, for the month of November social channels are COVERED […]
Ready, Set, NaNo!
It’s Monday and I totally need a weekend to recover from my weekend. The good news, the cabinets look quite nice and my kitchen is put back together. The bad news, I didn’t have time or brain power to even THINK about my WIP prior to this morning. Because, not only is it Monday, but […]