Day 5ish / 6ish

Daily Word Count: 2,313 Total Word Count: 11,522 It’s the end of Day 5 and the beginning of Day 6 and I’m happy to say that things are looking up in odd and unexpected ways. It’s true, Darla and Stan have virtually no backstory and I will likely scrap whatever I happened to have written [...]

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National (Belated) Back Up Your Novel Day

OK… so I’m a little late on this reminder post. Yesterday was “National Back Up Your Novel Day” over in NaNo-Land. Did you remember to back up your novel? I recommend being as redundant as possible when it comes to safeguarding your prose. I personally keep a copy on an external hard drive, a copy [...]

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Letter to Rebellious Characters #1

Dear ERNIE: You’re name is Ernie.  Ernie, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie.  Or, if you prefer, your name is Earnest Knutt.  Or you’re even going by Jason Presley, first son (and rightful heir) of Elvis Presley. Your name is not under any circumstances Eddie.  Eddie simply doesn’t [...]

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Day 1 is officially over

Daily Word Count: just over 700 (though it’s a bit premature to be posting today’s word count since I’ve only spent 17 minutes on my novel) Total Word Count: 5,104 Well, Day 1 came to a crashing close last night while I was sitting on a very ambitious 4,800 and some odd words, I feel [...]

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Suddenly I feel like I haven’t planned enough…

One of my NaNoTweeps (NaNoWriMo Twitter followers, for those who don’t have the lingo, and this particular Tweep happens to be @simplywriting) has been asking for some help with her NaNoSoundtrack to go along with her novel. In order to better help people understand what kind of music she is looking for she posted this [...]

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