It generally takes me about a week to quiet my inner editor during NaNoWriMo. For the first week, I fight with her a lot. She tends to want me to go back and fix plot ideas, weird sentences and anything else she can think of. I have learned one thing from her, listening to herContinue reading “Ways to Quiet Your Inner Editor”
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Write-Ins – Countdown to National Novel Writing Month
Writing can be more fun when other people are there to share the experience with you. Like writing sprints, write-ins can be a great way to keep yourself moving forward toward that awesome goal of 50k words. If you’ve started an account at nanowrimo.org, you’ll find a tab toward the top of the page thatContinue reading “Write-Ins – Countdown to National Novel Writing Month”
Writing Sprints – Countdown to National Novel Writing Month
I actually did a lot of writing sprints before I knew what they were. A friend and I would find a writing prompt, usually a word or a song lyric we liked, and then we would write for a set amount of time and swap what stories came out of those sprints. Writing sprints areContinue reading “Writing Sprints – Countdown to National Novel Writing Month”
Plotter or Pantser – Countdown to National Novel Writing Month
The first time I “won” NaNoWriMo was in 2013. I read No Plot? No Problem, created characters, and did my best to create a semi-coherent sci-fi book. It was called “Equilibrium” and it was a meandering mess. It was not a total failure though, I learned my first baby steps to writing a full-length novelContinue reading “Plotter or Pantser – Countdown to National Novel Writing Month”
The Taming of the Muse 