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NanoWriMo Inspiration and an Update

I’m afraid last month, I was made of failure. I got just over 28,000 words. If I hadn’t been aiming for 50,000 then I would have called that a good month, but I fell off the writing wagon. I spent exactly one minute on self pity, then I let that go, because despite the fact [...]

Sob

I got it done. Just.   At midnight I got my draft done. It’s a shame about all those places in the book where I’ve typed <INSERT EPIC BATTLE HERE> but it’s done. So now what? What do you do with a first draft once it’s finished?   I’m going to ignore it for a [...]

Impossible Goals Update

I’m going to make it. Just. I set myself the goal of finishing my first, rough draft, by the end f the month and as long as I keep going on my current schedule, the rough draft will be done on the thirty first. Parts of the manuscript are pretty dire, some are outright unreadable [...]

Failure: Do it Right

I set myself a big goal for the weekend: Write 20,000 words by hook or by crook. I utterly failed. At 8,000 words my brain turned to jello and I crashed out on the sofa with a box set of DVD’s.   You heard me.   As a writer, you’re going to fail at your [...]

Impossible Goals update

It’s all going rather well actually. I got to the end of chapter 5, and I’ve hit my word count (just). Now the bigger mission begins, finish draft one before the end of July. I’ve been mapping out he rest of the novel, so I know more or less where I’m going. I’m not a [...]

Impossible Goals?

I’ve set plenty of them, failed at most, but achieved a couple. It’s been a while though, since I set myself something so truly monumental, so utterly ridiculous my girlfriend will once again consider calling the men in the white coats. So here it is. First, finish the first five chapters of The Shadow Library [...]

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