At the start of April, I was bragging about the work I was undertaking, intent on writing 90,000 words in a month. I updated my blog about it every day and then I went radio silent for three weeks. I can't completely cover the reasons for this. All I can say is that something else …
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day 12
In my usual way, I am being far too harsh on myself. Today I hit the 30k mark but I know I'm five thousand words behind where I expected to be. If I had kept the marker at 50,000, as is the goal for anyone else doing the National Novel Writing Month challenges then I …
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day Eight
I've recovered from the position I left myself in yesterday, which is an incredible personal achievement considering how busy I've been all day. I don't know how much of Chapter Seven will remain because even as I was putting it together it felt like filler but it's all working towards something. At the end of …
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day Seven
Well, I've fallen behind. It was only a matter of time. I have been doing well for a week to keep up with my insane expectations but I'm calling it a night at 2,400 words. I'm too tired and I shouldn't have had three beers before trying to make the last thousand words, while on …
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day Six
I started out well. Got over a thousand words done after my morning exercise but before work, but then the day got away from me.So I am now up until at 11pm, drinking white rum and making my wordcount because I am insisting on getting this done to my own goal, rather than the 50k …
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day Five
Well, I feel like I've cracked it. I've often said that I do my best work before 9am and that was certainly the case today. I got up at six (very quietly because it's a Bank Holiday and I don't want to be killed), worked out for half an hour, showered, dressed and wrote two …
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day Four
Well, I'm still to learn from the last few days. Over the Easter weekend, it has been difficult to carve out an exact time to write. I know that I can get a thousand words done in half an hour if I really set my mind to it and there isn't much outside research that …
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day Three
Another late start, I left it until after dinner to get any writing done. Chapter Three was a complete departure from the characters that I had introduced in the previous two days/chapters so it was an easy roll into the world of the chocolatier and a chance to get some outside ideas down on the …
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day Two
Having struggled to reach my target yesterday, I was pleased to find the time today to get a chunk of writing done and am now at the six-thousand word mark, which is just scratching the surface but is at least still on the target for the rest of the month. My plan is to write …
Camp NaNoWriMo – Day One
It's been a month or so since I updated my blog. It felt like a good time to go for it as I have been bitten once more by the writing bug. For April 2021, I will be attempting something stupid, a 90,000 word first draft of a novel that I am currently calling Death …
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