Tag: National Novel Writing Month

  • NaNOWriMo Day #18

    ……and then I fell in love. I could not help it. I fell in love with one of the characters, he is after all the perfect man for my leading lady!  What does this mean? It means I cannot rush because I want the reader to love him as much as I do thus I must develop his character so that…

  • NaNoWriMo Day #16

    My word count 18,634 to be on target I should have written at least 25,000 words.  No it is not time to give up. Putting things in perspective I need to write 2,092 words to achieve fifty thousand words by November 30th today I wrote 2,207 words. All goals need to be evaluated every now and then. Recently I updated…

  • NaNoWriMo Day #14

    I am still here! I admit to having a day of writers block but that was the least of my worries! Writing is a solo sport,  occasionally when I look at what other people are doing it is a distraction causes self doubt. On day 11 I did not like the direction my plot was going and apparently my characters…

  • NaNoWriMo Day #8

    At some point the story begins to tell itself. It is 7pm and I am on target as to word count and I know what is going to happen next. There are some who may be feeling a bit discouraged as they look at the number of words written.  Because I am not as structured as some writers are it…

  • NaNoWriMo Day #7

    It is a meeting of the minds. After evaluating my writing so far I examined why the Elders were having such issues with what I had written. It is important to know why a group of characters need to take over and tell the story there way.  It was during this gathering that I realized I had not given enough…

  • NaNoWriMo Day #5

      You can’t always have days that are perfect.  Yesterday I completed over 1,000 words and today so far 293. I am not panicked! Late last night  the Elders took over the plot; they were trying to make the book about them and not Hope; so I gave everyone a time out.  This morning I had a talk with The…