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NaNoWriMo challenge
I have about a week to learn about NaNoWriMo before it kicks off, I assume it’s still going? I’ve never took on a NaNoWriMo challenge before and I am not sure I’ll do much when I eventually start it,...
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recent issues
Having second thoughts about taking up NaNoWriMo, I struggle with 250 words a day these days, let alone trying to squeeze in 50,000 in a month – reason? Migraines, frequent for months now, also I’ve...
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Calculating Words
750words.com is excellent, I’ve been writing on there every day since I found it and I have discovered my flaws – the words I used too often, though I have learned them I haven’t yet learned how to...
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NaNoWriMo Survival Kit
I fully intend to do NaNoWriMo next month; I have a novel fully planned for the occasion. Whether or not the actual novel will be completed by the end of the month remains to be seen, but I hope that...
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Inktober
I am not just a writer, I am a self-taught artist too; since being a self-taught artist I have loved to paint with watercolours primarily landscapes, dragons and birds. I only have three or four...
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Fantasy Art & Gnomevember
Gnomevember is something I found whilst using WordPress reader and looking for the tag “Fantasy” as I love to do every day. I am really glad I found it and I think it’s a good idea, but I don’t think...
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You can survive NaNoWriMo
NaNoWriMo is just around the corner, this is going to be my first proper attempt at NaNoWriMo this year. I have researched this a lot and I have been preparing for it a lot in the last three weeks,...
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NaNoWriMo day 1
NaNoWriMo has kicked off today and I am on a roll! I have so far written 2148 words towards my daily goal, my daily goal has been 1670 words. So WOO! I have chosen to write a fantasy story based...
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NaNoWriMo & The Monster
I needed a pep talk on the NaNoWriMo website tonight, because I have never written thousands of words down towards a novel without revising each paragraph for weeks at a time. I am not used to word...
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NaNoWriMo November 2nd update
Today I have so far completed 5,594 words towards my 50,000 word goal at NaNoWriMo! Filed under: About my work Tagged: goal, NaNoWriMo, words, writing
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Day 3 of NaNoWriMo
Today is day three of NaNoWriMo, I may write more later on, but probably not too. I have completed today with 2185 words, this total’s my whole NaNoWriMo score for the 3 days I have suffered from...
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NaNoWriMo update November 4th
Current word count for NaNoWriMo on day 4 is 10461, yay. Filed under: About my work Tagged: count, NaNoWriMo, Word, Word count, words, write
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NaNoWriMo Day 5
NaNoWriMo word count so far… 12667 and writing first draft without revising each paragraph like I usually do, is coming up with some surprising results. The results are similar to brainstorming and...
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NaNoWriMo is making my writing terrible
I appear to be losing the plot 17k into my NaNoWriMo novel, it seems to be going against my plans and I am getting to the point where I need some sort of support and though my region is lovely, it is a...
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Plotter to Pantser
Despite it being crappy as I said in my last post I have persevered with my NaNoWriMo novel. I have now added a further two thousand and odd words to my story and that totals to 18931 words all told....
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Half way through the challenge
I am over the half way mark in NaNoWriMo, not much over it though I just finished for the night at 25,066 words. I slumped behind on the words for a few days because I was worrying too much about...
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NaNo No No No DON’T DO IT!
I do not recommend NaNoWriMo to any writer who has been writing for a while, whether published or unpublished to partake in NaNoWriMo unless they are used to writing more than 1700 words per day under...
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1st draft vs 2nd draft
I would like to know as a reader which of the two opening paragraphs below makes you want to read more? 1. The explosion could be heard for miles and the scent of smoke from the fading...
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I no longer want to be in the league of procrastinating artists and writers, things are going to change. For the past three weeks I have been living my life on a goal based lifestyle, thanks to some...
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Words, NaNoWriMo and more…
A pixabay image Despite what I had promised myself last year, I am trying to do NaNoWriMo again this year – why did I make this decision? Simple, in the past six weeks I have been consistently...
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