NaNoWriMo Tag – 2019

The first draft isn't about getting it right, it's about getting it done. - Ava Jae This is basically my last chance to do this tag this year, and since I have sort of been doing NaNoWriMo this year I thought that this would be fun to do. Since I am going to try to …

NaNoWriMo

Writing permits me to be more than I am. Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations. - Alice Walker The last four years I have done NaNoWriMo, and apparently my brain has been conditioned to think that when November hits it is time to write. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel …

Should You Do NaNoWriMo?

NaNoWriMo is where "I've always wanted to write" becomes "I am a writer." - Willow Sanders, NaNoWriMo participate NaNoWriMo is just around the corner and lots of writers are getting ready to do it. NaNoWriMo is the abbreviated version of National Novel Writing Month. It takes place every November and writers try to write a …

NaNoWriMo 2018 Thoughts

The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them. - Neil Gaiman  This was the fourth year that I have done NaNoWriMo.  I still find it challenging and fun.  This year though I ended up approaching …

NaNoWriMo Tag – 2018

The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein So, I was not tagged, but since I am doing NaNoWriMo I thought that this would be a good thing to do. The tag was created by Seihren the Bookish Witch and I saw it on Jedi by Knight. 1. How many years have you participated …

NaNoWriMo 2018: A Warning

The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them. - Neil Gaiman I wasn't planning on trying to write a fifty thousand word novel this November. I was planning on finishing a short story this month. …

The Music of Writing

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within. - Gustave Flaubert Two years ago I did Camp NaNoWriMo. I was having a difficult time with my novel. I was going slower than I would have liked. And …

Camp NaNoWriMo Thoughts – July 2018

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. - Ernest Hemingway Sometime in May of this year I decided that I wanted to compete in Camp NaNoWriMo. Camp NaNoWriMo is where one tries to write a certain amount of words in a month. Traditionally it is fifty …

Books That Started During NaNoWriMo

One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I’m going to do my five or ten pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I’ll have lost nothing—writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no …

Almost Halfway through A Month of Poetry

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. -Plutarch So, we are just about half way through Camp NaNoWriMo and NaPoWriMo. When I think about that I have a bit of a hard time believing that time seems to be passing so quickly! This April I decided to try to write a poem …