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Inside the mad rush for 50k – NaNoWriMo 2014
So before I started writing for NaNoWriMo this year, I had decided I was going to try and update every day to see how I go with things. Guess what happened? Yeah, you guessed right. This little writer got herself so caught up in writing that I did nothing but write. And eat. And sleep. And write some more.I reached 50k at the start of this morning, but I’m technically counting it as three days, because really, that’s all it’s been to me. This story took my by surprise in many ways. Firstly Devin’s story is supposed to be the third book in my series, but secondly it’s got different…
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What to Bring to NaNoWriMo
Ahhh there much be a million and one posts of NaNoWriMo out there, I know I’ve done one before, but her we are, two days before NaNo is due to start and I still haven’t finished plotting out the novel that is going to write itself! Or that’s what I’m hoping. I’m here to shine a light on what you need to bring to NaNo. A lot of people like to be pantsers and have no plot and write as they please, that’s easy enough, right? But I can’t do it. I get stuck and that leads to not being able to write and then freaking out. Plotters are much…
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Starting at the beginning
A few weeks ago I went to a lunch with some beautiful ladies from the Bright Eyed And Bloghearted course and I was initially very terrified. I didn’t know what to expect and my gut was telling me to pull out because it was afraid, but I went and had a lovely time. All of the ladies I met were beautiful and wonderful. How could I have thought of missing that? We were all chatting one of the lovely ladies gave me the best idea, she had sat down and drafted out like 50 topics she could blog on. I was like “How in the world could you have done…