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November writing wrapup

At a few minutes before midnight I am declaring NaNoWriMo over, and I did not make it to 50,000 words. In the middle of the month I had a bunch of work that needed to be done for money, and a particularly amazing weekend workshop [http://getting2grace.com/] led

Worlds colliding

Worlds colliding

This thing keeps taking me in unexpected directions. What I thought had gone sideways a couple days ago has gone farther sideways. Yesterday I didn’t get as much writing done and I didn’t think I’d get much done today because I had a lot of other work

Worlds apart

Some intense writing today. I wanted to make up for the time lost yesterday in the Wal-Mart parking lot. I hoped I might push my total to 10,000 words today, but didn’t get there and at this point I’m exhausted. I need to set it down for

I am Exposition Man today

I am Exposition Man today

I started by fleshing out some of what I’d already written, providing some more detail in the conversation that ends the first chapter. I’ve also decided to upgrade a minor character; he may still be a minor character, but I’ve decided against discarding him. He’ll appear

2200 more words and failing the Bechdel test

2200 more words and failing the Bechdel test

Day two of the NaNoWriMo [http://nanowrimo.org/] challenge is done. It’s early enough that I might conceivably go back to writing but late enough that taking a break now means I’m likely to be done for the day. I finished the first chapter of the novel. I’

If I must fail I will do so in public

Today was the First of November, and therefore the first day of NaNoWriMo [http://nanowrimo.org/] or National Novel Writing Month. The challenge is to write a novel of at least 50,000 words entirely during the month of November. It’s a somewhat ambitious undertaking and therefore tempting not