Category: nanowrimo
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When You Hate Your Writing
I talked about this a little here, but I want to go further into it today. Back sometime in December – I’m not really sure when, but it was a few days after Christmas – I pulled out a first draft I had set aside for a few months. My fantasy novel Oh, Wonder Why…
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Nanowrimo 2018 – A Dumpster Fire
OK…what even happened???? (In other words, I did not win.) I originally was not going to do Nanowrimo this year, because the last three months of 2018 were going to be crazier than usual, and I wouldn’t have time for it. But then October rolled around – that scent of Autumn and running around in…
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Tips to Write Faster for Nanowrimo
NANOWRIMO IS UPON US!! *writers flee to their keyboards in panic* This is my third year doing Nanowrimo. Hopefully this year I will actually succeed. (November is one of the busiest months of the year for me. Couldn’t this be done in January or something?? Read about last year’s episode.) And while I may not…
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Nanowrimo: the Aftermath
Um. Hi. Nanowrimo is over and well – I did not succeed *bum da tisss* I ended at 34,000 (which is better than last year). What did I write? Could I have done anything better? Am I still alive? (answer: debatable). What was the novel that I worked on? Well – it’s a fantasy novel…
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Really???
It’s the end of Nanowrimo, did you really expect me to post a blog?? *shakes head and goes back to writing*
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When You Find out You’re a Writer (and Arsenic and Old Lace)
Next week is Halloween (“All Hallows Eve” is what I celebrate but for the general public’s sake, I’ll just go with Halloween). In honor of it being so close to that night (AND NANOWRIMO. Calm down, this has nothing to do with Nanowrimo, I’m just REALLY EXCITED ABOUT IT) of candy and pixies, I am…
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Nanowrimo 2017
It’s BACK! NANOWRIMO IS BACK!!! Nanowrimo is “National Novel Writing Month” which is in November. It’s a challenge hosted by Nanowrimo to write 50,000 words (a novel) in the month of November (that averages out as 1,667 words a day). Writers scream, pull their hair out, and turn into raging word monsters (or so I’ve…
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5 things to do when you don’t connect with your characters
Characters. Our novels would be nothing without them, just a bunch of trees and abandoned neighborhoods and castles. There would be no plot and hence no story and hence no novel. We need characters. But more importantly we need fleshed out, amazing, multi-dimensional characters who jump off the page with pzazz and splendor. Yeah. That’s…
Bernadette Benda 