by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on December.2.2009
December’s here (boy did it arrive fast) and thus November has ended and so has National Novel Writing Month. Here’s how it went for me:
MY STATS
Average writing speed: 600 words per hour
Average hours spent each day: 1 hour
Goal: 50,000 words written
Actual Words Written: 39,700 words and ~14,000 words edited
Result: 1 Novella rough draft completed and [...]
by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on November.24.2009
This is it, the last week of NaNoWriMo! By no means has it been easy, but it has been fun and enlightening. We’re supposed to have around 40,000 words written by now, with just 10k more to go to hit our target of 50k.
Although I am only at around 30,000 words written, I’m feeling pretty [...]
by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on November.12.2009
There’s this piece of advice that is constantly given to aspiring writers, that goes something like “Make yourself write every day”. Or “Just keep writing” they say, and that there’s no such thing as a writer’s block or needing to be in a creative mood to write.
Well, I beg to differ.
For a while there, I [...]
by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on November.6.2009
At last it’s Friday, and I’m so happy I could cry. It has been a long, daunting week of non-stop work and missing my family.
What is interesting to me though is the fact that some people look forward to the opposite: getting away from their family. I’m not talking about your typical I-need-a-break-to-spend-some-me-time kind [...]
by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on November.4.2009
Day 3 was a painful one. I returned to my hotel room mentally and physically drained at 9:30 last night. I did manage to write one page of 302 words before I lost consciousness.
I hope Day 4 will be much more productive. We shall see, eh?
END GOAL: 50,000 words
GRAND TOTAL SO FAR: [...]