Finish Writing Your Book by November 30
Get serious about finishing your book. Join me and I’ll help you write it!
Get serious about finishing your book. Join me and I’ll help you write it!
November. It’s golden leaves turn brown and crunch beneath the soles of my shoes. (Shoes and socks?! Ugh!) Then the wind blows them away. Meanwhile…at my computer… National Novel Writing Month compels me to write at least 50,000 words. For the past five years, I’ve attempted to accomplish this feat before Thanksgiving. Since the first …
November. National Novel Writing Month. It’s a brotherhood of insane writers, pounding out 1,700 words per day for thirty days. Since I’m rather unsure if I am meant to be a novelist, I may be a rebel again this year. In 2014 I wrote that path. It netted four short stories, one of which I …
During NaNoWriMo, I trained my Dragon. I know you are thinking: “NaNoWriMo is supposed to be about writing words.” Silly you. I got Dragon Naturally Speaking software a couple years ago. My husband knew I wanted to try speaking my writing. The next year, he bought me a new computer which had the Microsoft version …
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I think I say that on this blog every year. But it’s true. And time has not changed this fact. Why do I love thanksgiving so much? Let me see if I can show you with a few pictures. The best part of Thanksgiving is gathering with my family. …
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Ideas bombard me. A snippet of conversation or a newspaper article set my creative juices flowing. Does that mean I can use them to create a novel during NaNoWriMo? Ideas for stories seep from my brain, pools of drool beneath the cheek of the exhausted. Getting an idea is never a problem. Grasping hold of …
If you’re my friend on Facebook, you know I spent November writing between 2,000 and 5,000 words every weekday to “win” the distinction of writing a novel in 30 days. People wanted to know what the prizes were for winning. Let me explain National Novel Writing Month. The purpose of having a month focused on …