Posts about nanowrimo

NaNoWriMo: are you lost?

It’s day ten of NaNoWriMo, and if you are keeping to the ideal daily word count of[…]

How NaNoWriMo stopped my fear and helped me find my fourth career

(This post expands on a NaNoWriMo pep talk I wrote a couple of years back). Are you[…]

About Plotting and Planning

Last week I ran a three-hour MA class on plotting at City University. Apart from being one[…]

Best Laid Plans

So, I didn’t keep up my resolution to post here three times a week during NaNovember. Man,[…]

All Over the Place like a Bloody Great Rash

So it’s National Novel Writing Month again, and I seem to be all over the place talking[…]

A Great Book for Writers

I’ve just been reading this: Plot and Structure by James Scott Bell, and it’s kind of helping[…]

Poised, ready to dive in

Yesterday I lugged all 450 pages of the Every Vow You Break manuscript – with line-edits and[…]

Line Edit Fun

First, my excuses for not posting in over a month – ‘very bad for the blogging profile’[…]

What I did on my Holidays part 1: Pilgrimage

Top of my list to do while we were in the Bay Area around San Francisco  (after[…]

Weightlifting for weedy writers

I have printed out my first draft of novel #2, and it comes to nearly 500 pages,[…]