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Is my era as a top poster over?
I post a lot on the NaNoWriMo forums. In past years I’ve been one of the top posters, if not the top poster, on the site, and according to my rather shoddy estimates, I’ve made between 15,000 and 20,000 posts … Continue reading
NaNoWriMo 2009 is over
NaNoWriMo as a whole had a record-breaking year. We’re talking 19% winners, almost 8% donors, and two billion words written. The final word counts are still coming in from people who had trouble validating, but my region (Atlanta) is sitting … Continue reading
The End (of my NaNo novels)
I hit the end of my second NaNoWriMo novel, Adventures in Wrimonia, today. It clocked in at 58,008 words, giving me 131,014 words total for the month of November. Apparently I’m still in denial, as the file for my novel … Continue reading
Adventures in Wrimonia coming to a SWAT near you
Today I passed 100,000 words total for NaNoWriMo and learned that RoughDraft could count the total word count of all open documents, thus saving me the time of using the calculator to add the word count of the current novel … Continue reading
The November 24th Fundraiser at NaNoWriMo and Other Shenanigans
If you haven’t already read the latest Breaking News, you may not know about the NaNo fundraiser on the 24th. NaNo’s trying to raise $100,000 on the 24th from 12:01am to 11:59pm Pacific Time (-8 GMT). If that goal is … Continue reading
Hotel NaNoWriMo
The idea of writing a parody to “Hotel California” for NaNoWriMo has been stuck in my head since October. Now that my current NaNo novel is about a writer doing NaNo, and I had some spare time today, this came … Continue reading
My NaNoWriMo novel, autosummarized
I’ll get back to the 20 things I need for survival list tomorrow. Today is special, though. I finished my NaNoWriMo novel at 73,006 words, and in honor of that occasion, I opened Microsoft Word. I don’t particularly enjoy using … Continue reading
What not to do
When you meet an author like Joshilyn Jackson who happens to be doing NaNoWriMo, admitting you are over 50,000 words on the 11th when she is nowhere near that is either a good conversation starter or a good conversation ender. … Continue reading
Writing at a turtle's pace
Writing is hard. As much as I love it, and as seemingly sane as writing keeps me, it’s hard some days. Writing wasn’t hard today because of the content I was writing. I actually had some idea of where I … Continue reading
NaNoWriMo Excerpt: Week Two
As I promised yesterday, here’s another excerpt from my NaNoWriMo novel. The standard disclaimer applies. It is, by all standards, a very rough draft. One of the pumpkins was at the other end of the hall. It slipped in through … Continue reading