Today is December 5th, 2019 and NaNoWriMo has long been over, but my brain had turned to mush. My original plan was to have this written and published by December 1st, but alas here I am. If you can’t tell by the extra-large photo posted above, I was a winner! I wrote 50,026 words by November 27th. Sadly I was at the office as I typed the winning words so I had to keep my excitement to a minimum, but…
Tomorrow is October 1st, 2019. Tomorrow is day one of the 31 day #RealityWrites challenge. Each day a non-fiction prompt will be given and we the participants have 36 hours to post a complete and original submission. This challenge is exciting for me and I cannot wait to dive in. Most of us are creating daily works of non-fiction from email responses, Facebook posts, to Instagram photos and more. With each post we have a story to tell about ourselves….
Yesterday I printed out all 119 pages of zero-draft onto size 8X11 paper and placed the pages into a three-ring binder. I am 100% positive that I am at the point where this step was necessary. My manuscript is ready to go through the first steps of editing. Wow! I know there are many things that need finished, like the last chapter. And there are things that need to be tied together and cleaned up. I am pretty sure the…
NaNoWriMo = National Novel Writing Month. It was founded by Chris Baty in 1999 and has taken off from there. The goal is to write an entire 50,000 word novel over the course of 30 days. Sounds completely insane…right? Well, about a week ago I decided that I wanted to get in on the NaNoWriMo bandwagon and quickly realized that the actual camp occurred in July and November. At first, I was a little disappointed that I would have to…