Entries from The Fountain Pen tagged with 'NaNoWriMo'
Chapter 9 Closes and I Win NaNoWriMo!
I came down with a flu/cold thing early Monday morning. It woke me up at 2 in the morning and I knew I was done for. What I didn't know is if I would be able to pound out the...
Advancing Chapter 9
I'm honestly surprised I was able to get nearly 2,000 words written today. Sunday's aren't usually a productive day for me, unless naps count as productivity. I pulled some daddy time with my little girl in the afternoon, taking her...
Finished Chapter 8, Started Chapter 9
Today was an awkward day for writing. An old childhood friend (he reminded me we've been friends for 30 years) was in town today and last-minute we arranged to get our families together. It had been two years since we...
Battling for the Win
I don't know what happened today. I took the day off. I intended on writing at least 4,000 words. I got a good night's sleep; my wife let me sleep in until 9. I could not concentrate on my novel....
Marching Toward the Finish Line
I made a last-minute adjustment to my plot tonight, rather spur of the moment. As I've known all along I'm discovering and exploring this novel as I'm writing it. I only have a skeleton in mind, and some times I...
A Near Misstep
I had to work out some plot-based kinks in the ending of my novel tonight. As I've been approaching the end I've become more concerned about it. Initially it was never a well defined target, as I knew I would...
Finished Chapter Seven
Tonight I finished Chapter Seven, and have both an ePub and PDF available for download. The story is racing toward the finish line and I need to spend a bit more time working on the final details of the plot....
Nearing the Finish Line
Tonight I barely managed my 2,000 word goal. In doing so I am now 13,000 words away from the finish line! That seems like a manageable amount. However, I am now certain the story will not conclude at 50,000 words....
Opening Chapter Seven
In truth I started Chapter Seven last night, but as it was only a few sentences I didn't feel like posting it then. I managed nearly 2,000 words tonight so for the time being I'm back on track. However, I'm...
Finishing Chapter Six
I think today was the worse day of writing I've had thus far. I only managed 700 some words. My brain just quit on me. It got to a point where I could not put two words together and opted...
Pushing Into the Night
It's late. It's much later than I want it to be and I've written about as much as I can tonight. I spent my most productive hours of the day working on my Sunday School lesson, and I had some...
Insomnia Strikes
I couldn't sleep last night. I'm not sure why, but I know it wasn't related to NaNoWriMo at all. The clock read 3:30am when I went to sleep and read 7:30am when the alarm went off. I'm surprised I'm still...
Running out of Steam?
I discovered that the two-and-a-half year-old battery in my laptop will go from fully charged to nearly empty in less than an hour now. I also discovered that I was (am?) about empty today when it came to the ability...
Magic at the Carousel
We had a showing of our house today. We've been trying to sell it for months. So I found myself sitting in my car in front of my neighbor's house waiting for the realtor to show up with her clients....
Slow Sunday
I'm not at all surprised that I write just shy of 1,700 words today. I really wanted to take a day off but as I will have to spend this next week preparing a Sunday School lesson I'd rather chew...
Halfway Done!
Today I crossed the 25,000 mark. I'm halfway there, my only question now: "Is the story half done?" I'm not sure. I'm wondering if this will go 60,000. I feel like I'm dragging the action out too much. I'll fix...
Closing Chapter Four
I had hoped to bring Chapter Four to a close tonight, and I succeeded in that goal. As always I have put up an ePub and PDF version of the chapter. In looking at the pacing of my book I...
Long, Hard Day
I knew coming into today that I would not get much time to write. What I did not know was that I would not get any rest the entire day. I've been up for 16 hours and I've yet to...
Ahead of Schedule
I am officially ahead of schedule! If I don't write at all tomorrow I will still be ahead by a couple hundred words! This feels good, especially given that I have a meeting tomorrow and I may not get to...
Plotting the Novel
I found myself coming dangerously close to the end of the plot I had already outlined, so I spent some time today working on finishing the outline. I didn't actually finish it, but I have a far better idea of...
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