Archive for the 'NoNoWriMo 2011' Category

Time To Make Progress?

November 3rd, 2011 by jason

It’s day three and I haven’t even hit 1000 words. As I wrote yesterday, I’m having a tough time getting to the action. I have tons of ideas but not sure how to execute them. This morning I spent about 15 minutes writing out one-line descriptions of some of the major events I want to [...]

Exposition

November 2nd, 2011 by jason

Yesterday was the first day of NaNoWriMo and i only got around 800 words written. I realize that by having so many ideas (trust me — I’m full of them!) I’m having a difficult time getting to the action part of my story. It’s like when you have this big grand idea, it’s difficult to [...]

NoNoWriMo 2011 Kickoff

October 31st, 2011 by jason

NaNoWriMo = National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write a 50,000 word novel between Nov. 1 and Nov. 30. I tried it back in 2003 but only got to 12,000 words. That piece had was called Red Eye Reduction. At that point in my life I had been unemployed and finally started getting [...]