Tag: Word count

  • Marsha

    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 […]

  • Marsha

    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 […]

  • Marsha

    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 […]

  • Marsha

    NaNoWriMo Day #3

    It is not as bad as I thought! It was good that I did not force the issue yesterday and write more. I was headed towards wa-wa land and if I had decided to push myself I would have written hundreds of useless words. I wrote 2,397 words today in about the same time that […]

  • Marsha

    NaNoWriMo Day #2

    Spring forward – Fall Back, clocks change soon but that is not my excuse for not getting much writing done today. Time just seemed to slip away. I had a list of things to do before I sat down to write and I really did not get much of that done either. Today, was more […]