I’m officially a winner of NaNoWriMo 2023! That’s right. I hit 50,000 words around 11:00 pm this evening. I had intended to take the day off and give myself a creative break. I spent most of the day rereading some of my favorite romance books. Mostly for inspiration. Some because I wanted to remember how … More I’m a Winner!
If you’ve been following my NaNoWriMo 2023 journey, then you probably saw on yesterday’s update post where I shared I had my best day of writing. I wrote 4,839 words yesterday. At the end of yesterday’s post, I challenged myself to write 5,000 words today. And . . . [drum roll please] I exceed my … More Micro-Mini NaNoWriMo Update
NaNoWriMo Day 10 and I’m still movin’ right along. Today has been my best word count day yet! Some way, some how, the words are still falling out of my head and flowing onto the page. Frankly, I’m surprised at how fast this story is coming together. I’m up to about 19 chapters. I still … More Mini NaNoWriMo Update No. 2
Today marks the end of the first week of NaNoWriMo. If you write 1,667 words per day, which is what NaNo recommends to reach 50,000 words by November 30, then you’d be at 11,669 words today. Today, I made it HALFWAY TO 50K!!! That’s right, I hit 25,000 words tonight. TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND WORDS! And I’m … More It’s Been A Week: First Week of NaNo
It’s PREPtober! That’s right. 31 26 days and counting until NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). This marks my 15th year participating in NaNoWriMo. I have won a few years (2017, 2020), but not always (2021), and some years (*cough* 2022), I barely write anything (including a blog post!). One year (2013), I even traveled to … More Preptober to NaNoWriMo
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, then you know that I participate in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) every November. Every year since 2008 (14 years)! I wrote about it here in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. And holy fish nuggets, I’m wondering where the heck this year has gone, much less … More Novel November
October whizzed by and now it’s nearly mid-November. And I haven’t written a blog post in nearly a month. Where has the fall gone? I spent October tied up in reading challenges. I participated in a record number of reading challenges and readathons across three platforms—Litsy, Instagram, and Facebook (although I post the majority of … More And It’s November
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