Okay, just done my first NaNo, and feels good to go get a lot of writing down, even if I did fall a little short of the 50,000 word target. Well... maybe a lot short. Definity short. I wrote 17,419 words of my novella Amanidas, increasing the total wordcount to 29,866. And you know what? …
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Kinda Doing NaNoWrMo
So, I'm kinda doing NaNoWrMo this year. By that, I mean I'm hanging out on the official forums and aiming to write 50,000 words, but I am not starting a new novel. I'm continuing with my current project, a story about a little girl called Astra who lives on a deserted space colony called Amanidas …
Hugo Talk, NaNoWrMo Plans, and Holiday Sketches
Just a quick update on things happening with me. And also a look at the Hugos, though not much since I haven't really been following them this year. I could pretend to be really noble and say I was boycotting them due to China's human right's issues, but whilst that certainly turned me off, I …
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Should I do NaNoWrMo This Year?
No. I should not. I will probably die if I push myself to write that much. Besides, I finally got back to my long neglected story about telepathic tree fungi and am ready to write about the fight with the dragon. I don't want to shelve that for a month to do NaNoWrMo. On the …
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