My official NaNo graph. During NaNo, most of us are obsessed with our graphs! Winner! I did it! I "won" NanoWriMo! At the end of the day, November 30, my total word count was 50,606. I actually hit the 50,000 at 11pm on 29 November. To say I was relieved would be an understatement. It had been quite a marathon and I had some very, very dry days in there. But I am also, even days later, absolutely over the moon. I feel like I have achieved something valuable and learned some personal Continue Reading
23 November 2015
Life and Death
It's hard to believe there is just one week left of NaNoWriMo. To be honest, it's kinda dragged for me, as my story began to stutter about a week in. From all I've read, this is quite normal but it's still not the most encouraging thing in the world when it happens to you, especially when you read the updates from other triumphant participants claiming 4,000 words that day, or 6,000 words, or in one case over 11,000 words. Some of these folks have their 50,000 words already. I mean, don't these Continue Reading
