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  The Winner’s Circle I WON!!! I WON I WON I WON I WON I WON I WON I WON I WON I WON I WON I WON I WON I WON I WON I WON I WON!!! Ok, now that I’ve gotten that out of my system… I just wanted to pop in and tell you that… I WON!!!!!!

  9 months on
  
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  Mid-Week #3 + Plot Twists + More Novel Help I’ve found that participating in late night sprints with the Official NaNoWriMo Folks on Twitter has done wonders for my word count.  I can almost get my word count for the day done in a single sprint.  The only bad thing is that they’re West Coasters so I have to wait until around 11:00pm before [...]

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  The Dreaded Week 2 The dreaded week 2 is almost behind us now.  I’m on scheduled with my word count (24,780 and counting, nearly at the halfway point) and I am sad to say that my plot is going no where.  It’s kind of frustrating really.  The Week 2 doldrums really took a hit on my novel.  I probably [...]

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  Your chance to influence my NaNovel, #1 Well, it’s happened.  I’ve reached the first time that I’ve run into a brick wall in my plot.  And I need YOUR help.  You can either visit the NaNoWriMo forums (and if you’re a WriMo who’s registered you can offer your suggestions via the site.  They’ll be miraculously transferred to my email box by hard [...]

  10 months on
  
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  Day 5ish / 6ish Daily Word Count: 2,313 Total Word Count: 11,522 It’s the end of Day 5 and the beginning of Day 6 and I’m happy to say that things are looking up in odd and unexpected ways. It’s true, Darla and Stan have virtually no backstory and I will likely scrap whatever I happened to have written for [...]

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  National (Belated) Back Up Your Novel Day OK… so I’m a little late on this reminder post. Yesterday was “National Back Up Your Novel Day” over in NaNo-Land. Did you remember to back up your novel? I recommend being as redundant as possible when it comes to safeguarding your prose. I personally keep a copy on an external hard drive, [...]

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  Letter to Rebellious Characters #1 Dear ERNIE: You’re name is Ernie.  Ernie, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie, Ernie.  Or, if you prefer, your name is Earnest Knutt.  Or you’re even going by Jason Presley, first son (and rightful heir) of Elvis Presley. Your name is not under any circumstances Eddie.  Eddie simply doesn’t have the [...]

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  Day 1 is officially over Daily Word Count: just over 700 (though it’s a bit premature to be posting today’s word count since I’ve only spent 17 minutes on my novel) Total Word Count: 5,104 Well, Day 1 came to a crashing close last night while I was sitting on a very ambitious 4,800 and some odd words, I feel like I [...]

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  Suddenly I feel like I haven’t planned enough… One of my NaNoTweeps (NaNoWriMo Twitter followers, for those who don’t have the lingo, and this particular Tweep happens to be @simplywriting) has been asking for some help with her NaNoSoundtrack to go along with her novel. In order to better help people understand what kind of music she is looking for she posted [...]

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  It Came… And sadly, “It” is not my NaNoWriMo Hoodie. However, “It” is my Magic 8 ball that I will be using for one of the Dares in my NaNovel. And just to make sure that “It” worked, I had to try it out. So I asked it the question all WriMos want to know the [...]

  10 months on