Missed a day of NNWMing…

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I seem to be struggling with something for the past few days. It started with a slight itching in the back of the throat and then went away the next day but it kept coming back in other forms. Now my nose keeps being stuffy and I just want to sleep all the time. Yesterday […]

Gingerbread Painting

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Finally started on the Gingerbread Flower Shop and I expect this one to be a breeze. The other pieces still need a lot of detailing before I can start sealing them up for outdoor use. My writing is going ‘quicker’ as in that it’s not taking me all day long to make it to the […]

How quickly the tide changes.

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I finally made an important decision today concerning my story. I wasn’t going to allow myself to visit this scene until the 15th so that I know that I’m at least halfway through the story. With how I’ve been dragging my feet, hating the story in its entirety, and struggling to make anything else happen, […]

Struggling to get away.

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I’m struggling to get away from this monster that’s hassling me for words! Words! He says I owe him words! So bored of this story that I’ve been hammering out for NaNoWriMo. I seriously am. That’s what worries me. There’s no passion going into this story like the passion I had for last year’s story. […]

10,396 words banked thus far…

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I think I have a routine down now. I struggled back and forth between painting and writing that I felt like I couldn’t get them both done. Now I have a notebook within arm’s reach so that when I’m painting, I can remind myself of the notes and what scenes I’ve thought up in order […]

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 […]

NaNoWriMo and Castles!

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NaNoWriMo‘s 13th year is coming up. For me, it’s my third go at writing 50,000 words in a month. If you don’t know what it is, NaNoWriMo is where you challenge yourself to write 50,000 words during the month of November. That’s 1,667 words a day! You can do it! Create an account and give […]