Tomorrow, at the Arlington Writers Group meetup, I will be leading a discussion on NaNoWriMo and writing goals. In light of that, it seems appropriate to provide an update on my own writing goals for 2010. I set out four major goals, each of which had some objectives. I’ve had mixed results, but I see…
Now that I have completed the 30-day NaNoWriMo challenge, here is a look at what I did “by the numbers”. If you ask me, it’s pretty impressive: 61,131 words in 30 days. That’s an average of 2,037 words/day Wrote on 25 out of 30 days. If you count just those 25 days, I wrote an…
Once again, I didn’t get up early to write this morning and wrote at lunch instead. It is a frighteningly interesting phenomenon where I can be under an arbitrary deadline like NaNoWriMo and get up early every day and write 2,000 words, but when I am on my own arbitrary deadline, it doesn’t seem to…
Yesterday, I posted about how we like the new car after two weeks of driving it. In that post, I said: One thing I don’t like about the car is that it doesn’t warn you when you leave the headlights on the way both of our old cars did. But I suspect it shuts them…
A preview of Scrivener 2.0 was released just in time for writers to test it as part of NaNoWriMo and I decided to take advantage of that to work on my novel this month. I’ve been a Scrivener user for many years and have already written about my great experiences with Scrivener 1.0. What follows…
Via Mary Robinette Kowal: Yes, it is true, I have run into friends like this. And yes, you know who you are. This had me laughing so hard that I almost decided to… well, write a novel:
We’ve been driving our new 2011 Kia Sorento for just over 2 weeks now and I figured it was time to summarize my thoughts on the experience so far. Keep in mind that prior to this, I drove a 1997 Saturn SL1, which I bought new in late 1996 and on which put more than…
Yesterday while we were sitting in our family room hanging out with friends, the Little Man dumped onto the carpet a bowl of apple chips he was munching on. I picked them up and returned them to his bowl (5-second rule) and gave him the bowl, reminding him not to dump his food on the…
I finally got around to posting my novel progress for the day. I ended taking the weekend off because we had friends in town and between hanging out with them and dealing with 3 little kids, I was pretty much worn out for most of the weekend. But I was back at it today, working…
I was up at 7am this morning and did the first of 2 writing sessions today. There were two scenes in Chapter 25 and I felt like between scenes was a good break point, especially since I had other chores to do this morning before our weekend guests arrived. Actually, there were not originally 2…
I don’t normally run out to the store on Black Friday. But I wanted to pick up some logs for the fireplace since the temperature is really going to drop tonight and Kelly–who’d already been over to our local Target–said it wasn’t too bad. Keep in mind, our local Target is a 5-minute walk from…
After a few days off, I was back to work early this afternoon. I’ve been struggling lately with the “middle muddle” and felt stuck in the mud in the midst of Part 2 of the novel, but thanks to some reworking of my outline, and some quality thinking time cleaning 4 bathrooms and vacuuming all…