Tag: NaNo

  • NaNo Word Count

    NaNo Word Count

    Keep up with my NaNoWriMo progress in this blog post. I think it’ll work.

  • Writing through disaster?

    The Boston Marathon bombing was a horrendous tragedy, and plenty of folks more eloquent than I am have expressed their thoughts much better than I ever could. Why’s that? I write romantic comedy. I don’t do well with dark moments, tears and a heavy heart. My whole family’s like that. There’s a reason we sat […]

  • The power of persistence

    Had you asked me last week whether I was going to win NaNoWriMo this year, I’d have laughed — most likely right in your face. With two entries for the 2012 Golden Heart competition to polish, I’d pretty much written off finishing NaNo. When I popped my last GH entry in the mail on Monday, […]

  • Gearing up for NaNoWriMo

    I’m pretty sure pre-planning was the reason I powered through 53,000 words in 30 days in 2010. So as much as I hate to sit down and “plot,” I spent part of the weekend doing exactly that. I’ve had the idea for this story for a while, ever since reading a story about a state […]