As some of you may know, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) will be launching again in just a few short weeks. Last year, I participated in the 50,000-word challenge and won for the first time, though my first time participating was in 2008. This year, I’ll be participating again – but I don’t have highContinue reading “Gearing Up: NaNoWriMo 2012”
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[Guest Post] Survival of the Easiest
As a veteran Nano and first-time Screnzier, I’ve been thinking a lot about the differences between National Novel Writing Month and Script Frenzy. Mostly, I’ve been thinking about which is easier. As a seasoned Nanoer, you’d expect me to go with Nanowrimo. After all, I’ve never even written a script before (barring a few five-minuteContinue reading “[Guest Post] Survival of the Easiest”
[Guest Post] Hit Fast Forward
It’s now December 1st and you’ve got a spanking new 50,000 word novel (or at least a substantial part of a novel). What are you doing to do? If the novel’s not complete, finish it. You’ve got momentum coming out of NaNo, really good writing habits, and the ideas are still sunshiny fresh. Besides, yourContinue reading “[Guest Post] Hit Fast Forward”
[Guest Post] A NaNo Strategy to Help You Win NaNoWriMo
Hi Feliza, thanks for having me! Now that NaNoWriMo is over for another year, it’s time to start planning for next year. (Tongue in cheek.) I first heard about National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) through Chris Baty’s book No Plot, No Problem and I was hooked. I did my first NaNoWriMo in 2007 – andContinue reading “[Guest Post] A NaNo Strategy to Help You Win NaNoWriMo”
[Guest Post] Romancing the Tome – or “You and Me Could Write a Bad Romance”
This is my fifth NaNoWriMo. Twice, I finished over 50K. Both times it was with mystery novels. Once, I changed ideas around mid-November. I advise against this. Okay, sure, I could have kept everything I wrote the first half of the month and uploaded some kind of Frankenstein manuscript for the final count, but IContinue reading “[Guest Post] Romancing the Tome – or “You and Me Could Write a Bad Romance””
Feliza Casano 