Five Things I’ve Learned from NaNo Week Two

1. Getting ahead doesn’t mean squat I was a day ahead at one point during the first week. A day ahead! Days of 2k were my usual. But unless you’re already to 50k, so what? It just takes a few crap days to undo all that hard work to have a pretty looking graph. 2. […]

Five Things I’ve Learned from NaNo This Week

1. I am capable of writing over 12k words in a week, possibly even more than that. Aside from an initial flare of panic on the first day that paralyzed me from starting for a few hours, this first week, I’ve hardly felt like I was pushing myself to write. The amount I wrote felt […]

Productive Distractions

So I’m doing NaNoWriMo this year. For those not familiar with the lengthy abbreviation, it stands for National Novel Writing Month, which is in November. It’s when a bunch of people attempt to write 50k words in one month, which is what is considered to be “novel” length, although loads of novels are in the […]