Surprise! You know when I said I wasn’t going to post this Wednesday? Well, I changed my mind. I finished NaNoWriMo (reached my 50,000 words, and actually finished my story) much earlier than I thought, and my fingers were itching to blog, so here we go. This NaNoWriMo (my fifth) was both more difficult and…

Well, NaNoWriMo is almost over. As I’ve mentioned previously in my other NaNoWriMo posts, I have done this project several times before and was able to successfully complete it each time – even when I was a full-time student with a part-time job. This year, it’s been a whole different ballgame, for a lot of reasons.…

What I’ve learned doing NaNoWriMo this time around: It’s amazing to have a story you’re really in love with. Don’t get 11,000 words behind. Don’t get 11,000 words behind. It’s not fun to 11,000 words behind. Don’t get 11,000 words behind. Conclusion? Don’t get 11,000 words behind.

In the other years that I have done NaNoWriMo, week one has typically been my strongest week. I have found that getting ahead of the word count in the first few days gives me a strong start to the month and carries me through weeks that are more difficult (like week two and three). This…

Happy Halloween! For several years, I have participated in a project called NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). The idea is to write a total of 50,000 words in the month of November. This comes out to 1,667 words per day. It’s a stretch goal without being unreasonable, even for students or parents or full-time professionals. This…