Review: Under the Dome by Stephen King (4-stars)

I wasn’t sure what to expect going into this. So far, “It” has been my favorite Stephen King. “Under the Dome” might not have topped it, but it came close. And it was one of the best page-turners I’ve read in a long time. That’s saying a lot for a book that’s nearly 1,100 pages [...]

NaNoWriMo Day 24 (50K!)

NaNoWriMo par: 1,667 words/day NaNoWriMo total: 40,000 words Personal par: 2,000 words/day Personal total: 50,206 words I passed the 50,000 word mark today, which means that I have successfully completed the NaNoWriMo challenge for 2009. It marks the first time that I have ever done this. I also had a record day today, writing 4,808 [...]

NaNoWriMo Day 20

NaNoWriMo par: 1,667 words/day NaNoWriMo total: 33,340 words Personal par: 2,000 words/day Personal total: 44,383 words Day 20 means that we are 2/3rds of the way through the NaNoWriMo challenge! Par is 33,340 words and after adding 2,041 words this morning, I have reached 44,383 words, more than 11,000 words ahead of NaNo par! I [...]

NaNoWriMo Day 19

NaNoWriMo par: 1,667 words/day NaNoWriMo total: 31,667 words Personal par: 2,000 words/day Personal total: 42,342 words Big day today for writing! I passed the 40,000 word mark, but even more than that, I had my single best word-count day yet, totaling 3,126 words on the day. Still sick, I slept in again, so my writing [...]

NaNoWriMo Day 18

NaNoWriMo par: 1,667 words/day NaNoWriMo total: 30,000 words Personal par: 2,000 words/day Personal total: 39,216 words Once again, wasn’t up at 5 am, thanks to this awful cold I’ve got. But I did go into work today and my plan was to write for an hour at lunch, and an hour after putting Zach to [...]

NaNoWriMo Day 17

NaNoWriMo par: 1,667 words/day NaNoWriMo total: 28,339 words Personal par: 2,000 words/day Personal total: 36,748 words Despite being sick today (ran a slight fever last night and this morning) I managed to get 2,037 words done today, and I was pretty happy with the overall direction I’d taken. Today I began to shift where things [...]

NaNoWriMo Day 16

NaNoWriMo par: 1,667 words/day NaNoWriMo total: 26,667 words Personal par: 2,000 words/day Personal total: 34,711 words Not an auspicious start to the second half of NaNo for me. I didn’t get up at 5 am, as I’d planned and instead slept until 7 am. While I didn’t know it, I was sick, but I’m trying [...]

NaNoWriMo Day 15 (first half complete!)

NaNoWriMo par: 1,667 words/day NaNoWriMo total: 25,000 words Personal par: 2,000 words/day Personal total: 33,612 words This was another tough morning of writing. It started out slowly and I struggled through the scenes, but I knew where they were going better than yesterday and ultimately I think it will turn out good. So despite struggling, [...]

NaNoWriMo Day 14

NaNoWriMo par: 1,667 words/day NaNoWriMo total: 23,338 words Personal par: 2,000 words/day Personal total: 31,518 words Today started out to be one of those days when it seemed like the words wouldn’t come. I knew what scene I wanted to start with, but I couldn’t get more than 150 words before I stalled. Rather than [...]

NaNoWriMo Day 13

NaNoWriMo par: 1,667 words/dayNaNoWriMo total: 21,667 wordsPersonal par: 2,000 words/dayPersonal total: 29,472 words It was a rough night last night (Zach was grumpy) and so for the first time since NaNo started, I didn’t get up at 5 am to write this morning.  I felt too tired.  Of course, later I regretted it.  I like [...]

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