As part of my prep for National Novel Writing Month (nanowrimo.org), which starts next week (eek!), I’m reading through issues of the London Times from 1808. My story this time will be that of a British journalist sent to Spain to cover the start of the campaign there against the French. Amongst the reports on [...]
So, I’ve started shopping my latest story. Here is the work-in-progress description. Next week, I’m thinking of adding another excerpt on the blog from later in story. Like the news lately, it’s about unarmed people gathering together and facing threat from armed forces. [UPDATE: Uh-oh, the scene also has a couple spoilers in it, so [...]
Again, I have slain the writer’s-block beast and churned out 50,000 words of prose to win National Novel Writing Month. Woot! ’80s dance tunes, playing loud. Last November, I had an outline, semi-solid characters, enough plot and historical details all in a row to mow down the first draft of my Manchester story (which ran [...]
National Novel Writing Month starts Monday. In the next 30 days, I’m going to write at least 50,000 words on a new story that I have only the vaguest idea of at the moment. I think it will be contemporary, and I’m going to try to make it sassy if not snarky; I’ve been finding [...]
So, after a sluggish start and some mild howling about the first draft of my Manchester story, I managed to build a weekend’s-full of space to get down to reorganizing and shaping this behemoth. This is the revised sentence-for-scene outline, all 15.5 pages of it. It took me 17 hours over two days and the [...]
Less than a week until National Novel Writing Month! I have my characters, motivations, some shreds of plot and high hopes I can spew out far more than the minimum 50,000 words in November. And you?
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Writing time these past two weeks: 49 hours. How? Vacation week from F-T job! And I even had time to get up to Philadelphia and see the Cezanne and Beyond exhibit. Now no writing this for two days — fabulous getaway weekend! OK, only 36 hours, but still, getaway weekend!
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November is National Novel Writing Month! More at nanowrimo.org
