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Camp NaNoWriMo | I’m Taking Part!
Read more: Camp NaNoWriMo | I’m Taking Part!Last November, I felt like I turned a corner with my writing and NaNoWriMo as a whole. No, I did not “win” that time, as I did not get to the hallowed 50,000 words, but I did work on my intended story for 30 days and got pretty damn close to the word count too at the…
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NaNoWriMo 2018 | Reflections
Read more: NaNoWriMo 2018 | ReflectionsIf you are a frequent reader of my blog or you glanced at my Twitter in the past month or so you may have seen that I was participating in NaNoWriMo. If you don’t know what NaNoWriMo is… firstly, where have you been? And secondly, I’ll explain in brief: National Novel Writing Month takes place…
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NaNoWriMo 2018 | Breaking 30k
Read more: NaNoWriMo 2018 | Breaking 30kYou may have noticed my entire lack of blog posts after Monday of last week and there is one very good reason for this: NaNoWriMo. It turns out that, when I properly give writing a novel a go, it takes up most of my brain energy that I have left after work… and there’s barely…
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NaNoWriMo 2018 | Mid-Point Report
Read more: NaNoWriMo 2018 | Mid-Point ReportToday I bring you the second of my reports on how NaNoWriMo 2018 is going thus far. If you have no idea what I’m blathering on about, then please do check out my week one progress report or my initial post explaining my approach to NaNoWriMo this year. In my last progress report I mentioned that, as…
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NaNoWriMo 2018 | Week One Report
Read more: NaNoWriMo 2018 | Week One ReportToday I bring you a (slightly belated) recap, a progress post if you will, of how NaNoWriMo has been going during week one. As you may have seen, I decided this year to firmly give up the ghost of trying to write a novel I’ve been trying to write for the past three NaNos: The…
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NaNoWriMo 2018 | This Year’s Approach
Read more: NaNoWriMo 2018 | This Year’s ApproachFolks, it’s that time of year again: when writers all across the world come together to attempt the challenge that is National Novel Writing Month, namely writing 50,000 words in the month of November. I’ve participated in previous years, to varying degrees of success, as this blog will attest if you care to delve into…
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NaNoWriMo 2017 | This Year’s Failure & What I Achieved
Read more: NaNoWriMo 2017 | This Year’s Failure & What I AchievedI don’t know if you recall from my NaNoWriMo 2017 post, but I fully intended to participate in this year’s National Novel Writing Month by using the time to plan (and I mean properly plan and plot) my novel which I’ve been trying (unsuccessfully) to write for the past couple of years/NaNoWriMos. Sitting somewhere between gaslamp fantasy…
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NaNoWriMo 2017 | This Year’s Approach
Read more: NaNoWriMo 2017 | This Year’s ApproachWell, my friends, November is on the horizon again which, for those of us who are so inclined, means only one thing – National Novel Writing Month. Yes, it’s that time of year when tens of thousands of writers get together online, all in the name of the ambitious task of writing 50,000 words –…
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On Giving Up [NaNoWriMo edition]
Read more: On Giving Up [NaNoWriMo edition]Sometimes in life, you have to let go. Sometimes in life, you have to accept that A Thing is categorically Not Happening. Sometimes in life, you just have to admit that you’re not going to continue doing something because trying to do it is actually making you mildly miserable along the way. Sometimes in life,…
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Beautiful Books 2016: Introduce Your Novel
Read more: Beautiful Books 2016: Introduce Your NovelWell, it’s November 1st once again… seriously, where the hell did October go? I swear I blinked and missed it! Since it is November (though I’m still finding that hard to believe), it’s that time of year again – the time when this foolish girl who was never much of a writer tries to write 50,000 words…