750 Words · NaNoWriMo · Writing

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

Writing · Writing Workshop

I Believe In Fairies ~ a prompt for @libertyfallsdwn


As Carole is doing her utmost best to finish NaNoWriMo off this week (she's currently only 3000 words from finishing and tomorrow is the last day!), I've said I'll guest post a prompt for Liberty. (Liberty has finished her NaNoWriMo project already, so it seems only fair she should continue to have a prompt ;-)… Continue reading I Believe In Fairies ~ a prompt for @libertyfallsdwn

Life · NaNoWriMo · Writing

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

NaNoWriMo · Writing

NaNoWriMo – The Halfway Mark and an Extract


Today it is the 15th of November which means it marks the halfway point of National Novel Writing Month. It means that people all over the world are aiming to hit and break the 25,000 word point in their novels. I'm almost there, it's only lunch time and I have 587 words left to write… Continue reading NaNoWriMo – The Halfway Mark and an Extract

Writing · Writing Workshop

I Believe In Fairies ~ a prompt for @libertyfallsdwn


This week has been one of little niggly things resulting in several moments of grumpiness, stroppiness and quite a few tears - and that's before you take the kids into consideration. Things have been forgotten and/or lost, random allergies have popped up and a million other tiny annoying things have happened - I'm quite looking… Continue reading I Believe In Fairies ~ a prompt for @libertyfallsdwn