But, my novel isn't yet. 63,152 words and counting. I'll probably wrap it up in the next 5,000 words or so. Then is editing and revision. The nice thing about doing Nanowrimo this year is that I fell into a social community of folks who were writing too. That made it a bit easier. I hope that I can keep it up and meet with others in a writerly ( Read more... )

The days after the Daegu midway party were rough. I only managed 1000 words on Sunday and Monday. I felt pretty drained and didn't write at all on Tuesday. It was a much needed break, as I got back into it on Wednesday by writing 2800. Then I wrote 2600 today. My word count sits at 49,832 words. But, I'm not going to push myself today. I'll cross ( Read more... )

I'm beating the pace that I set the last time I did Nanowrimo. I think that the writing process has become less laborious, although I felt like I hit a wall today. I was off all day from work (school was cancelled because of the Suneung test, essentially Korea's ACT/SAT, but a bit more soulcrushingly crucial for the students). I hemmed and hawed ( Read more... )

I'm doing Nanowrimo again. It's been three years since the last time I did it. I read the posts I made about doing it in 2011. Seems like so long ago, and all I can remember was how much I sucked and how much it felt like pulling hair to get my words out ( Read more... )

This personal blog, as those of all my friends, has fallen by the wayside. However, I have started a new horror blog for anyone interested. You can find my thoughts on horror films and fiction here: http://piecesofdarkness.wordpress.com/

There, I did it.

A post for 2012. Nothing to say, just wanted to update the calendar. I need to go thru and download all of my entries so I have them saved on my computer. No one really uses LJ anymore, but what was once written is important, and in my opinion should be preserved.

Big sigh of relief ( Read more... )

Word count = 30159 ( Read more... )

12747 total thus far ( Read more... )