November was National Novel Writing Month and this year I failed completely due to an attack of the flu. However, I have been given the chance to redeem myself by taking part in the Waterstones Story Cube Bloggers NaNoWriMo Project. Starting in November, eight bloggers have been set the challenge to write a chapter of… Continue reading Waterstones’ Story Cubes Project
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Camp NaNoWriMo
Back in November, I completed NaNoWriMo and was a very happy bean. Sadly though, I did not finish my novel. Faerie or No is not, it would appear, a 50,000 word novel unedited. Meaning that although I battled though and hit that word count, I never managed to complete the story I was trying to… Continue reading Camp NaNoWriMo
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NaPoWriMo
It only seems five minutes since I was doing NaNoWriMo and yet here we are with April fast approaching and a new challenge before us. I say us, I mean me. For some people April means CampNaNoWriMo, where you set your own word count and spend the month trying to hit it - like NaNoWriMo… Continue reading NaPoWriMo
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NaNoWriMo 2012 and The December 750 Words Challenge
So, I completed NaNoWriMo 2012. I have a funky badge to prove it - look: I also have a Scrivener project that is 54,127 words long and impossible to summarise. I am using the excuse that the novel isn't actually finished as my reason my I am unable to describe what it is about without… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2012 and The December 750 Words Challenge
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On Wanting To Give Up
Tomorrow is the final day of NaNoWriMo and I should be sailing through to the finish. Happy, exultant and relishing in my 50,000 word novel first draft. Instead, I am curled on the sofa 3,247 words from the finish wondering if I can give up yet. Three thousand words. That's nothing really, I've written nearly… Continue reading On Wanting To Give Up
Carole Finds Her Wings 