There is a bad part of being done NaNo early. That fire that was lit under my butt is now out and it is that much more of a fight to keep going. The good thing for me (if you can call it that) is that I have two short stories that need to be done before the end of the month. That being the case, I’m still writing, albeit somewhat more reluctantly as my daily word count will suggest. It is still freaking cold here (some wise guy started a rumour that Calgary was the second coldest place on Earth yesterday. It wasn’t but it sure felt like it.) which is sapping my motivation. It’s dark when I leave […]
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NaNoWriMo – Day 22
You might think that the pressure is off my shoulders now that I’ve hit 50,000 words. In a way you would be right if you thought that. The pressure to win NaNoWriMo is definitely off. Unfortunately, it was replaced by a new kind of pressure. The pressure to finish and edit my two short stories. I admit, I have no one to blame but myself for this stress. I meant to write the stories and have them finished in October. What ended up happening is I got lazy and didn’t write them at all (well, maybe lazy is too strong a statement. I took a break after finishing GalaxyBillies). So here I am. I’m still writing and I’m also including […]
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I will not be setting any personal bests for NaNoWriMo this year, but it has still been a good one for me. I’m almost finished the two short stories, I have made great progress on my NaNoNovel and my surprise project has be fantastic. I know that I’ll be very happy with the story when it’s done, but that won’t be this month. I only had two thousand words left going into this day and I hoped I would be able to do it. I really need to be finished the focus on 50,000 words so I can start trying to finish the short stories and get the necessary revisions made. Of course, I’m under the gun; both stories need […]
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As you have seen by the results of the past few days I have been having a reduction in my writing output. Today was a refreshing change in many ways. I was able to have a relaxing writing day. I got up after sleeping in an extra hour and spent an hour working on my writing. My son and I had some errands to run which temporarily stalled the writing, but that was fine. I worked on my stuff a bit more after I got home and spent another hour in the early evening doing more writing. Then I had the privilege of attending the Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing 10th Anniversary Steel and Steam party. I got to […]
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