Category: Deadlines for Writers
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Post NaNoWriMo
With November over, the official NaNoWriMo challenge is complete but my novel is far from over. I’ve been spending time thinking about how to keep the momentum. I still have lots to write and there’s lots of rewriting of the words that I have written as well. Just after I hit 50,000 words, I was… Read more
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Talking About Mental Illness
Yesterday I posted by sixth story on the Deadlines for Writers website. I had a lot of difficulty with this month’s prompt, hysteria. I did a lot of brainstorming and had many different ideas to run with but none seemed to be a story I could figure out enough to write. I think it’s because… Read more
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Hysteria
No. Not me. Not yet, anyway. I’ve been trying to get my November Deadlines for Writers story done this week. It’s not due until November 6th but since I’m getting ready to start NaNoWriMo on Friday, I think it’s better to not have to add these 1,200 words to the 50,000 already on the calendar.… Read more
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Another Deadline Day!
My streak has increased to 4! I have now uploaded a short story each month for four months on Deadlines for Writers. You can learn more about how impactful this has been to me, check out my previous posts – One Deadline Started it All and It’s Deadline Day! Each month we get a prompt,… Read more
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NaNoWriMo
I’ve decided to participate in NaNoWriMo this year. If you haven’t heard of NaNoWriMo, it’s a yearly challenge to write 50,000 words of a novel in 30 days during the month of November. To put that in perspective, it’s almost 1,700 words per day for 30 days. When I’m focused and just freewriting without worrying… Read more
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It’s Deadline Day!
I thought I best let you know how the three days to deadline writing worked out. (But if you haven’t read my post One Deadline Started it All, the short version is that three days before the Deadlines for Writers deadline, I decided I didn’t like the stories I had written and started from scratch.)… Read more