NaNo November 11: That went quickly

It all went in a blur. I’ll take stock about what went right and what went wrong (likely to weigh heavily on the latter), but for now I’ll take a break from writing. In the meantime, these are the albums that accompanied my 23-day flurry of novelling: Actress – Splazsh Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto [...]

NaNo November 11: The real thing

I’ve just reread my previous posts, from all the way back in March. It’s useful to see how my attitude to my previous novel attempt changed over time. It’s also a little frustrating to realise that so much time has passed and I’ve neither continued to write fiction nor even read my 50,000 word draft. [...]

NaNoWriMo: All done, only minor disappointment

As you can see from the image, I’ve finished the 50,000 word project! I reached the wordcount yesterday morning, four days ahead of the 30-day target. Now I’m feeling a mix of celebration (with champagne last night, although I did protest) and minor disappointment. The final couple of thousand words were shocking – not so [...]

NaNoWriMo: limping into the final stretch

Last night I passed the 40,000 word milestone, and I’ve just over a week of my novel-writing month to go. The last few days have been hard. During the last week there were two days where I scraped in at my minimum daily count of 1667 words, and on one day I only managed 700.The [...]

NaNoWriMo: halfway through

Has it really only been a week since I last posted about my novel-writing progress? Last night I hit the 25,000 word milestone and I’m a little over one day ‘overbudget’. It’s been surprisingly painless, most days, to find two hours in which to write and only on a couple of occasions have I sat [...]

NaNoWriMo: 10,000 words in

I started my novel-writing month a day later than expected, on Tues 8th February. As the sole participant of this unscheduled challenge I see that as my prerogative, although now I’m determined to stick to the rigid 30 days. The first week has been an interesting experience. I’d felt that the first act had been [...]

Writing a novel in a month

Since New Year, I’ve fretted about not writing. My resolution to write something original each day has been a help – although it’s been derailed slightly into diary entries, blog posts and long-overdue emails. I’d heard about the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) a while ago, through a friend. The principle is that each November, [...]