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What Every Writer Needs to Finish NaNoWriMo

What Every Writer Needs to Finish NaNoWriMo

I finished 50k words tonight.  There were a lot of reasons why I didn't think I was going to make it.  I had been traveling (3 trips in November!), I had family obligations, I had a day job that I needed in order to pay the bills. But overall, I made a big push for it...

Start From the End

Start From the End

NaNoWriMo was set to start on Nov. 1 whether I had a plan or not.  So I went over to my co-blogger's house and sat at her cozy kitchen nook and jotted down some character notes. A few minutes later, I had a vague plan.  Meet Anna, an aspiring Valkyrie. Then, before I...

Day 2 of NaNoWriMo

I wrote over 3k words on Day 1, and it was easier than I thought with the help of dictation.  It took probably about just over two hours to do that.  I resisted the urge to edit, but of course cleaned up all the dictation randomness. For the month of October, I had a...

Walking and Dictating Your Novel on Your iPhone

Walking and Dictating Your Novel on Your iPhone

This morning I woke up earlier as part of my NaNoWriMo kickoff.  But not too much earlier.  Just 30 minutes.  Then I had a cup of tea to fortify myself, laced up my Kangaroo sneakers and off I went to start my great American novel. I mean, I was armed with my iPhone 6...

How Do You Write? Podcast

How Do You Write? Podcast

I've really been enjoying Rachael Herron's "How Do You Write?" podcast.  It is relatively new, and up to 21 episodes.  I'm a knitter and had been following Rachael's knitting blog for years.  In 2006, she completed NaNoWriMo and that manuscript was traditionally...

Using Dictation on the iMac to Write Your Book

Using Dictation on the iMac to Write Your Book

As the old adage goes, "How do you eat an elephant?" One bite at a time. NaNoWriMo is 50,000 words in 30 days. How does one crank out roughly ~1700 words a night? I had listened to a couple of podcast interviews where the guests had discussed writing fiction through...

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