Oh man! We're more than a week in already! I hope it's going well. amberdulen told me to come up with a game, I guess. But I couldn't think of any games, so I came up with a challenge. (Hope that's okay ( Read more... )

A day for gunpowder and treason, certainly, but mostly plot. Or no plot. Word around these parts is that's no problem.

Today's on-track goal is 8333 words. And that means it's time for the most important public service announcement of the month. BACK UP YOUR WORK. Do it now. Every year programs crash, laptops take a dive, jump drives explode, ( Read more... )

Good morning, NaNoMoJo!

It's Day 3, so we should be crossing the 5,000-word mark today. It's not too late to catch up, and if you can get ahead, do it! 5k is 10% of the goal, by the way. That's right: we're 10% done already. That's pretty nice ( Read more... )

The sun has risen on pretty much most of the world for day one of NaNoWriMo 2010! Our daily word-count goal is 1667, but as always, if you pick one day to get ahead, pick today! Nothing beats back the twenties blues like a going in with a nice big buffer.

Since we're all just getting started, in today's comments, post the first sentence of your ( Read more... )

As one of my last-minute preparations for NaNo, I pulled out and dusted off my battered and ancient ex-library copy of Robert Heinlein's "The Door into Summer," which I plan to keep propped on my computer table here until I hit the goal mark or until I go down in flames in my valiant attempt ( Read more... )

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My goodness, time flies.

With just a few days to go, are you scrawling footnotes on your outline or sipping umbrella drinks on a hammock? Or to put it another way: are you a plotter or a pantser? And how's that working for you?

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Click here for our welcome post: What is NaNoMoJo?Hello, NaNoMoJo! It's a little over two weeks until liftoff ( Read more... )

Click here for our welcome post: What is NaNoMoJo?A couple of days ago we posted about the germs of our NaNo ideas, the one thing we were sure would show up in November. Today let's go the other direction. This is NaNo, after all, and the motto lays it right out for us: no plot? No problem ( Read more... )