National Novel Writing Month
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November Writing Challenge
Some of you who may have been following my blog for a while will know that November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. The full challenge is to write 50,000 words in a month, and while I’ve done this several times, in the last couple of years I’ve been more modest in my goals.…
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Welcome to 2022!
Here we are again, the first day of a new year, 2022. I am hesitant to say I’m feeling optimistic, since the plague is still with us, and travel seems like it’s not really on the cards yet, but perhaps we will be able to do more stuff this year. I don’t usually make new…
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Another year over…
Each year I do a little wrap up post about the last twelve months and how they’ve gone for me. 2020 was, as I’m sure it was for many of you, a shit show. 2021 started out hopeful, I went back to working in the office sometimes, I saw a couple of Melbourne Comedy Festival…
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Kicking Goals for the Start of Summer
This year I decided to do a reduced word count goal for NaNoWriMo 2021 – I aimed for a measly 30,000 and I managed to get over 3000 more than my goal, which I was pleased with. My writing habit has certainly improved over the ten years of NaNoWriMo participation. I feel like my drafting…
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NaNoWriMo 2021
Regular readers of the blog will know that I have been participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) every year since 2012. This year will be my tenth year participating. The stats on the NaNoWriMo website say I’ve written 466,945 words as part of my NaNo projects, which seems amazing and doesn’t include the words…
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NaPoWriMo Wrapped Up
Just a short post today to say once again I have finished up my annual challenge of National Poetry Writing Month – NaPoWriMo. Modelled after National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, the idea is to write a poem every day over the month of April. I wrote every day, some of the poems were even…
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NaPoWriMo 2021
For the last few years, in April, I’ve signed myself up to the National Poetry Writing Month, or NaPoWriMo. Modelled of the novel equivalent, NaNoWriMo, in which I also usually participate in, the aim is to write a poem each day in April. This year I’m doing it again. I had a rough start, on…
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The year that was 2020…
I went back to find my new year’s post from earlier this year and boy, did I have no idea what was coming. Wow. Usually at the end of the year I do a little wrap up post, I cover the goals I set in the beginning of the year and how I’ve gone achieving…
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NaNo-Success
Well, November felt like it took several years, but I’vecome out the other side with another NaNoWriMo successfully under my belt. Woohoo! For this year’s project I rewrote a story I started in 2014. I had done a full manuscript, 78k words with rewrites, but I didn’t like it; it was in several different points…
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NaNoWriMo 2020
This year will be the ninth time I am attempting NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month. My first time was in 2012 and I have won, reached my goal of 50,000 words, every year since then. I work best with external encouragement and deadlines, and while NaNoWriMo is an (almost) entirely self motivated endeavour it…
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