Check out this TED Talk video about innovation. It’s by Steven Johnson, the guy who wroteEverything Bad is Good For You. (Kudos to Tracy V. Wilson for putting it up and writing NaNo!) Planner? Check. Red pen? Check. Thoughts crowding my brain like an angry bunch of tourists in a hotel elevator? Check.Every month I […]
(I carried this plant all the way back from Virginia) For everyone out there who feels like they’re drowning in word count: you are not alone.Today my roommate and I returned from Virginia to New York City. Our cumulative journey consisted of a 4.5 hour bus ride, a 30 minute cab ride at stomach-churning speeds, […]
For those of you who don’t know, National Novel Writing Month occurs every year in November. It’s a time when writers come out of their holes and join in an online race to the finish – 50,000 words written within the month. And I am doing it. Again.I have “won” for the past two years […]
Hound I used Word Nerd today and got this word. I was almost going to find another one – it was so difficult for me to think about where to find this word (I am not a dog owner, nor did I have a thought towards embodying this verb). For a while, I thought I […]
It’s December 1st and I am sitting here quite amazed at the NaNo novel I just punched out of myself. 50,252 words according to the NaNo counter, 50,039 according to mine [I prefer the former]. It’s the end of our 4 day break and it feels like nothing – but it was fun nothing, so […]
Man, that was perhaps the hardest thing I’ve had to do this year.Getting myself back on track with the NaNo word count was really difficult today – I was two days behind and I just got up to the necessary for yesterday. That means I still have to write about 1667 words for today but, […]
This year I have pledged to myself that I will win NaNoWriMo.And this promise, so far, seems to be on track. But I am still teetering right on the edge of whether there will be another 35,000 words jumping at the edges of my psyche by the end of the month – it is, of […]