Cubey Terra

There was blood. There was sweat. There were tears. There was even a little bit of pee. Yes, those were all things that my protagonists experienced on my plot-holed road to the story’s conclusion. I, on the other hand, experienced mostly just sweat from the anxiety of wondering if I would make it in time. [...]

It turns out that writing a novel — even a really bad one — is hard work. Here on the fourteenth day of this ordeal, with only 11 days to go, I’m solidly into the second half. At 28,404 words, tomorrow I should reach the three-fifths mark. I tell you, it’s slow going, now that [...]

So here at the one-week mark of this folly, words seem to be flowing more easily as the story begins to clarify in my mind. I can’t believe I’m actually past the one-third milestone — edging inexorably towards 20k, in fact.
Although I’m grateful for the focus that I’ve achieved this week, it does come with [...]

I typed the final sentence of the latest chapter, heaved a great sigh of relief, then pulled up the word count. It was exactly 10,000. Weird, huh?
So now that I’ve reached five digits, I have exactly one-fifth of my target word count of fifty thousand. Just repeat what I’ve done four more times, but with [...]

At this point, I’m beginning to wonder if this was really a smart thing to do. Having signed up for NaNoWriMo six days late, I now have only 22 more days to complete a 50,000 word novel. Well, novella, technically, but as they say on the Nano website, “novel” sounds much more impressive. As you [...]

In a stunningly stupid move, today I impulsively signed up for National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo, for syllable-haters). Their website sums it up best: “National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.” [...]