Well, I did it. With the support of friends and family, I wrote over 50,000 words of orginal prose fiction in a single month.
I wouldn’t exactly call it a novel, but it is a novel-length manuscript. There are some good parts. Now to figure out what to do next!
In the meantime, I am a
Entries from November 2007
50,000 words later . . .
November 29th, 2007 · No Comments · Me, Writing
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A site for character names
November 5th, 2007 · No Comments · Useful, Websites, Writing
http://www.thinkbabynames.com/
This site is the best I’ve found for finding names. You can generate random names, browse lists of male and female names (organized by country, popularity and era), and find out what names mean.
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Book in a week
November 4th, 2007 · No Comments · Interesting, Websites, Writing
Here’s a web site for those who find the NaNoWriMo pace a little pokey: http://book-in-a-week.com/whatis.htm
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The great novel writing month goes on . . .
November 4th, 2007 · No Comments · Me, Writing
Last night my wife and I had dinner in Ann Arbor with some non-novel writing folks. Nita mentioned that I was writing a novel in a month. Nobody in the group had heard of NaNoWriMo. They seemed to think it was all a little strange. That surprised me, given that we were in […]
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Day Two of NaNoWriMo
November 2nd, 2007 · No Comments · Me, Writing
It went slower today. I was re-reading too much. Yes, I revised some, but only a little. Mostly added in things.
I need to stop that. Just flog the damn story ahead. Crack the whip on those huskies and get the sled moving. Kind of violent sounding, but extreme times call for extreme measures. […]
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