Stories are life. Read some, write some, be some.
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Posted on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 8:58 AM
Get your novel on! Is this your year? It might be -- why not give it a shot? You don'need a lot to get started, and then, once you're started, just keep on going. In case you are wondering what NaNoWriMois, take a look at their site. If you like to have a lot of resources, check out this post. It leads to other posts, gives a lot of guidance, in case you like that sort of thing. But if you don't like a lot of guidance, then you can just start with a character who really, really wants something, but is blocked from getting it. |
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Posted on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 10:52 AM
I made it through NaNoWriMo successfully -- and got what I think will be a pretty god story out of it. Its working title is Piper's Private Writing School. Probably that will be its final title, too. As my two younger children were thinking of participating in it in the beginning, they are featured pretty much as-is as far as personality goes. That will need to change in the final. I may make them a little bit younger, and change their names. I have the story out to a few readers to critique, though it is in first-draft speed demon NaNoWriMo format. |
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Posted on Tuesday, November 01, 2011 12:58 PM
Today is the first day of NaNoWriMo 2011! This is the sixth year in a row that I've participated. I also began it in 2003, but I didn't get very far. I don't remember what my story that year was going to be. I do remember the other years. 2006 was an unnamed SF piece where deaf and hard-of-hearing people saved the world from alien domination. 2007 was Her Thirty Percent, a charming love triangle set in a gym where I let the woman keep both lovers. 2008 was Three Knights in Florida, a game-based tale where three facebook friends met in person for the first time and played a tournament of their own devising and faced a hurricane. |
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Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2010 9:34 AM
It's December now, and you will be happy, dear reader, to know that I have once more survived the madness of November that is NaNoWriMo. I got my 50,000 words done. The story is not all told, though, so I'm still writing it. I'm one of those people who get the title at the end. This story hasn't yet told me what its name is, so I can't tell you what it will be yet. In it, a bipolar fiddler, grieving over her husband, finds that people around her are not what they seem to be. Especially worrying is her psychiatrist's insanity, and that it seems to be contagious. |
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Posted on Thursday, September 23, 2010 1:01 PM
If gearing up means alternately wandering around in complete bewilderment and ignoring November first's approach, then I'm gearing up big time.
I love NaNoWriMo, also known as National Novel Writing Month. It happens every November, when thousands of people strive to write 50,000 words. That's less than 2000 words a day, which is not that hard. Very do-able. I want more folks to do it with me. The few thousand who did it in 2009 weren't enough. I would love to have some of my family members and friends join me this year. |
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