All posts tagged NaNoWriMo

And NaNoWriMo is over.

I won NaNoWriMo 2009! Now all I need to do is get my winner’s t-shirt (or another, at least) and sit back, giggling over the ludicrousness of my accomplishment. Right? Well, not really. I’ll explain. The breakneck pace of my NaNoWriMo project this year was due in part to a lot of factors. It was [...]

It’s That Time of Year Again!

NaNoWriMo time, of course! (I did see Christmas decorations at Duane Reade, though, so I do suppose it’s also that time of year, but the NaNo time of year is far more important.) This morning I am at 18,955 words. I sprinted through the first few days and now I am in the midst of [...]

National Novel Writing Month 2009

Otherwise known as NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, sponsored by the non-profit The Office of Letters and Light, takes place every November. Originally started in 1999, it now involves thousands of novelists every year striving toward a minimum goal of writing 50,000 words in a single month. It’s mayhem and absurdly fun to do. I [...]

JaNoWriMo?

I haven’t posted since last Wednesday because I’ve been doing a very exciting thing called writing. Obsessively, ridiculously writing. I’ve written 22,429 words since last Wednesday, actually. That’s a 6-day average of a bit more than 3,700 words a day. Frankly, that’s staggering. And I’m the one who’s been writing that! What?! Is it JaNoWriMo and [...]

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