Reaching the end of NaNoWriMo 2021

(insert fanfare here) I have met my NaNoWriMo 2021 goals! The only badge I didn't get was the one for hitting "Daily Par" every day. Mostly due to the fact that I recently discovered I set the wrong end date, so some days were a little under. But this is better than I've ever done…

Forming Blocks

Yesterday when I was sitting down to do my daily NaNoWriMo work, I noticed that I really need to pay some attention to the sections I've been creating and how jumbled they are. It's hard to figure out what to write when it's not easy for me to tell what I've already written. Like, I…

NaNoWriMo Week 3

Another week, another chunk done, another realization. I admit, I was starting to lose steam a little this week. I was wondering if letting those shiny badges drive me was a good idea. I could not add a word for a day and still be on target for the 10,000 words by the 30th. Then…

NaNoWriMo Week 2

It's the end of week 2 of #NaNoWriMo and I'm more than halfway to my goal for the month! Like I said earlier this week, I'm trying to do more than just a brain dump when I do my daily writing. But I realized today I was worrying too much about how what I'm writing will all tie together.

More than a brain dump

As I finished up my daily NaNoWriMo writings for the day, I realized something: I need to set more time aside for these writing sessions. These past seven days of writing have been mostly brain dumps on a topic, with some revising of existing work. I think I'm ready to do more than that now.…

NaNoWriMo 2021

Back when I started grad school, a friend in the cohort ahead of mine told us about NaNoWriMo and how she uses it not to write a novel, but to work on her thesis. I thought it was a neat idea. I still think it's a neat idea. NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing…