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NaNoWriMo – Day 11
When I booked today off work I excitedly told everyone that I would NaNo my little heart out. That was my grand plan, I have fallen behind badly on the word count by taking a day off yesterday (thanks to a migraine) and I thought a full day of writing would set me back on [...]
NaNoWriMo – Day 6
So, we’re on Day 6 of NaNoWriMo, I have four first chapters and only one of them has stuck. I could add those words to my word count (it would only bump me up a couple of thousand words) but since I’ve tried this story different ways, it kind of feels like cheating. I did [...]
NaNoWriMo 2011
So, NaNo 2011 is looming, I have already ditched one carefully planned out idea in favour of another. The first idea was a simple ghost story, your standard white lady tale that hits every cliche in the book. The second one is more along the lines of Woods, a novel in which a bunch of [...]
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Writing
I was feeling a little smug that I had finished the first draft of Star 1, and Star 2 has got a very wordy head-start. Then I re-read the first couple of chapters of Star 2 and it all came crashing down. Genius that I am, I had the book start with a Christmas party, [...]
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Finished First Draft
On 10 January 2010 I finished the first draft of Book 1, and it was a really rough draft. It took me three years to write it. I’m hoping Book 2 will go a lot faster. Book 1 had to go through a lot of revisions. It started as a first person Mary Sue fic [...]
Tagged book 1, finished, first draft, star series
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