After 30 days and 33,898 words written, National Novel Writing Month ended Monday at 11:59. I didn’t make it to the coveted 50,000 word mark, but I think the attempt deserves a review for posterity’s sake and maybe for other writers struggling with the same problems I had this year.
33,898 seems like a lot of [...]

If I had more days like today, I would already be a published author.
Maybe not, but I made good progress today, up to 19,042 words and once again on pace.
Of course, something like 8,000 of those words probably will end up not counting because I change the story so much yesterday, but then again, who [...]

Yeah, I’m behind, but the story is better than it would have otherwise been. With tomorrow being Veteran’s Day, I have a chance to catch up a little more. I should be able to hit 25,000 by the weekend, though I suspect it will be a hard slog. I guess that’s why they give is [...]

Yeah, so day 6 didn’t quite happen, so I wrote 4,000 words on day 7.
One of the problems with being a writer who is not employed writing is that most of ones time is taken up doing everything but writing. Perhaps even worse, too many people think that writing is something that happens by some [...]

10,061 words. Now bed.
DLH