NaNoWriMo: An Unfortunate Event

It’s pretty quiet around this blog. I blame it on NaNoWriMo. By the way, I’m on 42,000 words. Five days to go. Here is a hilarious letter sent to NNWM participants, from Lemony Snicket. (author of The Series of Unfortunate Events) I got a huge giggle out...

turn off

One of the hardest part about NaNoWriMo is forcing myself to Turn Off my internal editor, and just let it spew. I find this troublesome. But it’s a good prescription for what ails me: a hyper-perfectionist writer, who polishes and polishes until the life is...

nanowrimo: 1st day, 1990 words.

photo Why am I doing it? When it is obviously a CRAZY thing to do? (Nanowrimo stands for National Novel Writing Month. Participants write an entire novel of at least 50,000 words during the month of November. For this they get — more crazy. Plus satisfaction.)...