Balancing Act

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I’m dancing as fast as I can and producing few results. It feels like I’m not moving at a good pace with the gingerbread folks so I set up another table in the den – Oh, I’m sorry. The ‘room-that-catches-all’ – so that I can get some more pieces primed and try to get it […]

Day 2 of NNWM 2011

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Well, that was rather painful. I spent much longer today trying to meet today’s daily word goal. I kept opening word count to see how close I was before calling it quits for the day. I don’t understand how an idea that has pestered me for two years feels like trying to pick the meat […]

Day 1 – Check!

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After staring for hours at a blank white screen (MS Word), I finally forced myself to start out with a scene. I then spent the next couple hours trying to figure out what happens in this scene and how it can affect things later on. After hammering out 1,719 words, I have officially met today’s […]

NaNoWriMo has started. Day 1.

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NaNoWriMo has started! If you’re just hearing about this for the first time, NNWM is basically a personal challenge. You’re challenging yourself to write 50,000 words through the month of November. It gives you that extra oomph to start a novel. This year’s NNWM, I have decided to write a story titled “The Coming of […]