Amazing what can happen when you have the finish line in sight. – Nathan Fillion Okay, you got me: he’s not talking about writing, but a (probably justifiably) cancelled TV show, but that doesn’t make it wrong. It’s the 25th. Five days to go.1 By now, one of two things have probably happened — you’ve [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2009’
#NaNoWriMo: Using Time
I’m writing from the Home Office today, rather than a booth at Panera or the front seat of my parked car over lunch hour. I have this lovely wingback chair (secretly also a recliner) in the corner of my office, and it’s in that chair that I’ve tapped out about two-thirds of this month’s project [...]
Adrift, Episode 6 (podcast) (#nanowrimo)
In which we see how very bad the plan is that Jon, Finn, and Bilabil come up with, and then return to the “princess story” for a bit. I’m particularly happy with both sections. Also: New Microphone! Man, it helped a lot. (Thanks for the loan, Tim!) Comments, as always, welcome. If you’d like to [...]
#NaNoWriMo: I feel like you need a pep talk.
So we’re about a week out. Next Monday night, they take down the tents and roll the circus off to the next town. Now, if you’re very very lucky, and your word count is roughly on track, you’re maybe starting to see where the end is. There’s about ten big scenes between here and there, [...]
Truth
That’s sort of a cliché about parents. We all believe that our children are the most beautiful children in the world. But the thing is, what no one really talks about is the fact that we all really believe it.” – Heather Armstrong (Dooce)
#NaNoWriMo: Contents Under Pressure, Possibly Habit-forming
Back on day eight, I mentioned that by getting that far through NaNoWriMo, you’d already gotten past two of the primary “I quit” days in the month: Days 3 and 7. Today, we’re past day 21. If you’ve gotten this far, and you’re still here, I think you’re going to do okay. In fact, I [...]
Updates for the week of 2009-11-22
http://twitpic.com/pmy9j – Why Sundays are awesome. # I'm following too many people to keep up. I love you all, but Twitter makes me sad when I miss so much stuff. Might need to cull a bit. # Sledding highlight: Racing downhill w/Kaylee, flipping ass-over-teakettle, & emerging from the drift to hear: "That. Was. AWESOME." # [...]
#NaNoWriMo: Giving back
This post is really not about writing at all. This is about National Novel Writing Month and the Office of Letters and Light non-profit organization that make the thing happen. Every time I go to nanowrimo.org, I notice that little donation graph over on the side of the front page, and the info underneath that [...]
