Studying and celebrating the different.
(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… Continue reading Reaching the end of NaNoWriMo 2021
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… Continue reading Forming Blocks
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… Continue reading NaNoWriMo Week 3
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.
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.… Continue reading More than a brain dump
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… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2021
One podcast I used to listen to religiously, when I listened to podcasts regularly, is Waking from the American Dream. It is Kelly Carlin's podcast. She has amazing guests on that end up having these amazingly deep conversations. My favorite episodes are the "Octagon Table"s, where she has a bunch of friends (many of whom… Continue reading Finding my voice
I have been focusing on writing one article because it's what I'm presenting in a few weeks at PCA. I got to the point yesterday where I was ready to submit it to the journal, and after hours of tweaks so it fit the requirements of the journal, I did. Eek! But I've been working… Continue reading Overthinking Definitions
Deviate from the Norm 