Target: 20,000 Achieved: 20,067 Whew - I just about achieved this with a few words to spare! Fortunately, this month I planned my time out well: I knew in advance when I was busy, and that meant I could plan dedicated time slots for writing. What did I learn? I learnt three lessons over the …
Target: 18,200 Achieved: 18,288 I’ve finally ended a week on target! It’s been the first weekend this month I had some free time. I wanted to make time to relax, but I was also very aware of my writing target, so while I managed to crack out a lot during the week, it helped having …
We're over halfway through Camp NaNoWriMo already! For me, July's been going pretty quickly. Out of my 20,000 word goal I've reached over 14,000 words, which doesn't sound like a lot considering where we're at but it's a lot to me so I'm pretty pleased with my progress! Saying that, I still have a lot …
Target: 13,650 words Achieved: 13,285 words After not reaching my target last week, I put in a few more hours over the week mornings and week nights, and managed to catch up quite a bit by the Friday morning! Unfortunately, I had another busy weekend planned: I was out with friends on Saturday, then had …
We've only just past the halfway point of the month, but I've already hit a few points where I've felt a little lull! Here in London we've been having a gorgeous heatwave, and as a result I've been spending a lot of time out and away from my desk, fuelling my renewed fruit pastille lolly …
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Target: 4,550 words Achieved: 4,117 words I started out the week with the knowledge that my weekend ahead was going to be jam-packed, so my plan was to try and get ahead quickly so that I wasn't playing catch up the week after. I wanted to hit the ground running and after smoothing over my …
This is a quote that seems to have nailed itself to the front of my mind for Camp NaNoWriMo. The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.Terry Pratchett It's a simple quote that reminds us to focus on just getting the story down, on kneading out the story points with whatever plot ingredients …
