A WordsDay Special Let’s run the numbers. At approximately 2:00 a.m., EST, I finished the first draft of my novel for National Novel Writing Month. My word count came in at 50,390; […]
NaNoWriMo Breaking News: Stick a fork in me, I'm done
Review: No Plot? No Problem! by Chris Baty
A WordsDay Special If writing a 50,000-word novel in a month sounds like a crackpot idea, it is. So admits Chris Baty, founder of National Novel Writing Month and author of No […]
NaNoWriMo Week Four: A double-barrel word deficit
A WordsDay Special It’s crunch time. I’m about 8K words off-pace on my novel, and I only have a few days to go. I’d like to say this update on my National […]
NaNoWriMo Week Three: The word count vs. the Inner Editor
I won’t lie. It’s getting ugly. I’m running about a day-and-a-half behind pace on my novel writing. According to National Novel Writing Month’s official website, the cumulative word count is supposed to […]
NaNoWriMo: The Office of Letters and Light
A WordsDay Special Week Two usually takes a heavy toll on the writers participating in National Novel Writing Month, but for Lindsey Grant, the week has offered a little bit of a […]
NaNoWriMo: National Back Up Your Novel Day
A WordsDay Special Saturday is NaNoWriMo’s National Back Up Your Novel Day. I’m a pretty dutiful backer-upper, so I’m doing okay (knock on wood), but I figured I’d take the opportunity to […]
NaNoWriMo Week Two: "I've been Week Two'd"
It’s “Week Two.” For veterans of National Novel Writing Month, Week Two has the same kind of cheerful reputation as Darth Vader. It’s so evil it gets its name capitalized. Week Two […]
NaNoWriMo Week One: Writing with abandon?
I got this. 6,668 words? Yeah, I got this. Except I’m 294 words short of the goal for today. To get my 50K-word novel done by the end of November, I have […]
Writing the mad dash—National Novel Writing Month
A WordsDay Special Fifty-thousand words in thirty days. It’s a journey that would make Jules Verne jealous. November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), and I’m going to take the plunge. With […]
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