Hey Readers! Here to update about my NaNoWriMo 2023 journey. So, I’ve always been a pantser, but before I started the NaNoWriMo for “The Archmage’s Wish” (new and improved title), I had done a little freewriting. That freewriting developed into a small outline that I was going to use as a jumping board to begin…
Category: National Novel Writing Month
NaNo Novel Project Announcement
Hi Readers, A. E. Costello here. So it is National Novel Writing Month November 2023! I am finally taking part again since 2021, I skipped 2022, and broke my streak, since I had taken part every year since 2014 to 2021. Urgh! Its frustrating now that I think about it. I’ll have to start all…
National Novel Writing Month- Day 1 2023
National Novel Writing Month is here! The first day! I stayed up until midnight on Discord in my region’s chatroom, and did a fifteen minute sprint. I got out 33 words, which was better than I expected, because I was very, very tired staying up that late. I had expected that I’d only manage like…
NaNoWriMo: Day 7
It’s Day 7 of National Novel Writing Month and my overall progress looks like this: Not very awe-inspiring. And the fact that I have less than three thousand words when I should have around ten thousand by now brought me to the obvious conclusion that the story I’ve been working on for so long is…
NaNoWriMo: Day 1
Day 1 The goal is 2000 words a day. Today I wrote six words. That is not the goal set by the NaNoWriMo team. That word goal is 1,667. I chose 2000 because Stephen King in his book On Writing explained he writes at the minimum 2000 words a day, and won’t end the day…
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