Acknowledgments: NaNoWriMo update #4

One of the reasons I decided to participate in NaNoWriMo this year was the pressure. I don’t mean just write a bunch in November. I mean sign up at the site, with a profile and picture and everything; I mean post regular updates and excepts on the site and in Facebook and here in myContinue reading “Acknowledgments: NaNoWriMo update #4”

Researching fiction (NaNoWriMo update #3)

For more on researching for fiction, go to the main research page.  Here I am at the end of day 8 of NaNoWriMo.  My current total word count is 25,504. I know that makes it seem I’ve spent every waking moment of the past week writing, but really, I’ve managed to work in more thanContinue reading “Researching fiction (NaNoWriMo update #3)”

Writing in the middle (NaNoWriMo update #2)

When I was doing doctoral work at UNT, my writing professor Barb Rodman once commented that I could write more story in to less space than anyone she’d seen in a long while.  “I’m always surprised when I finish a story and I look at the page count to see how short it is.  YourContinue reading “Writing in the middle (NaNoWriMo update #2)”

NaNoWriMo update #1: So it begins.

I’m now two days into November and so two days into my new novel for National Novel Writing Month.  So far I’m off to a strange but delicious start:  I’ve had a very clear vision for this novel for about four years now, so at the outset of this project I set myself up a relativelyContinue reading “NaNoWriMo update #1: So it begins.”