Celestial Chicken Blog

The last thousand is the easiest. And the weirdest. I’m working away on my last thousand, knowing that I will reach my goal very shortly, and can validate and be done. But of course the story isn’t done, and I’d really wanted to get that final scene done. It’s probably another 3K, [...]

I managed to write 5K last night at the write-in, which puts me in that magic, downhill bone-rattler that is the end of Nano. I have always thought that the first 10K was easy, and the last 10K are easy. It’s all that stuff in the middle that gets you hung up! And [...]

I finally managed to get over 32K in my novel last night. I’m actually writing the story again, after my little foray off into the abyss just to get the words on the page. 30K is a milestone for me. If I can make 30K, it is downhill from there. Even [...]

Well, I’m catching up. I wrote another 4K last night, bringing my two-day total to about 10K. At this point I’m about 10K behind, but I don’t think I’ll have a problem catching up. The only thing bothering me is that I’m really not writing my novel anymore. It’s just a collection [...]

Yesterday was my local write-in, and I managed over 6,000 words. Thank goodness, because at a mere 15K, I was terribly behind. I’m now over 21K and feeling a little better about the word count. About the novel…well, not so much. Instead of continuing the story I was doing, I got off [...]

…when you need your reading glasses to type your NaNo novel. I know I need to get my glasses updated. It’s time for bifocals. But I’ve resisted, and now with the holidays coming, I don’t want to spend the money on glasses. So my trusty reading glasses will have to do. It’s [...]

The hardest part of storytelling, for me, is transitioning from one scene to the next. I don’t want to put so much crap in that it’s boring, but I do have to show how something moved from one thing to the next. This is so hard for me, it has always been a [...]

I received my review copy of last year’s Nano, Fairest of the Faire, just as Nano 2008 started. I need to go through it to look for errors, and have already noticed some layout issues just from flipping through the pages. Those are pretty easy to fix. The typos will require a [...]

After losing a week with my daughter’s illness and traveling to Colorado, I’m woefully behind on word count. I am at a measely 9300 words. I usually am close to 30K at this point, so this is a big disappointment for me. I did get over 1K written each of the last [...]

Several posts on the NaNoWriMo forums, especially in the genre categories, post a scene and ask for feedback. I’d love to, really, but the fact is, I’m madly trying to work on my own novel and I can’t offer that kind of support to anyone. I wouldn’t ask it of them, either. Of [...]