Tag: NaNoWriMo

  • Overwhelmed, underfocused

    Allow me to present a brief recap of NaNoWriMo days 2 and 3: Yesterday, 6 PM: Oh crap, I haven’t written anything? I better get on that! Yesterday, 6:03 PM: Dinnertime! Yesterday, 7:30 PM: Okay, time to write for real. I mean, look at Erin. Erin has… NINE THOUSAND WORDS?! WTF? Yesterday, 7:35 PM: Breathe,…

  • National Crazy Month

    Today marks the beginning of National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo, aka writing 50,000 words in 1 month, aka the thing I tried in August and failed, aka the thing I’m trying again. Erin and Aurora bullied convinced me to give it another go. Other awesome peeps I know that are doing it include Mandy,…

  • Remember what you want

    His father had given him the journal shortly after he left—how long ago now? Three years?—and had, in white-out, written the words “WANT JOURNAL” on the cover. In this book his father had written as inscription and directive, “Write what you want. Every day, or as often as you can, write what you want. That…

  • Solitude on a Saturday night

    How come no one is up to keep me company when I write late at night? Even my boyfriend and my dog are asleep. Sure it’s less distracting this way, but… okay, no, I know it’s better this way. “Books are written by the alone for the alone,” right? Sigh. Actually I’m finding that I…

  • Things I did today yesterday

    • Finished [Twenty-Somewhere] Episode 29: Escalation! One night Claudia wakes up alone in bed. Well, alone with the dog Max, anyway. “Eli?” she whispers. If he had trouble sleeping and moved to the couch, she doesn’t want to wake him, but if he’s just wandering for some reason, she’d like to know that he’s there…