Category: WTB
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Procrastination (11/29/2023)
I’m so close to the end of November and my 30 days in a row of writing. I’ve been sitting here at the library for over two hours and still haven’t even opened my WIP. I don’t know why. Maybe because it’s been taking much longer to get through this chapter than all of the…
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Progress Report (11/26/2023)
The month is almost at its end. Twenty-six days of writing so far. I set the goal of spending time writing every day of November without the pressure of a word count. I’ll admit that the first week or so I would feel bad if I didn’t get a “decent” word count. However, as time…
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November 11 Update
It’s been eleven days. Eleven days of writing and spending time with my characters. I thought maybe I’d reflect on how it’s going and why not share that reflecting with my readers. If there are any. The first few days I was writing around 1200 words in a day, but that has moved to half…
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November is coming…
And that means 30 days of hard core writing. NaNoWriMo (or National Novel Writing Month) is a challenge to write 50K words or more towards a single novel. At least, in its official capacity. Many people make the challenge their own. In 2020, after quitting my job as an elementary librarian, I decided to tackle…
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Intuitive/Thinking Loop
Today I finally watched the first video of the Understanding Yourself as an INFJ Writer course from Lauren Sapala. I bought the course a year ago and have had the tab open on my laptop this whole time, yet have procrastinated on actually watching. I’m not entirely sure why. But on the heels of the…
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Conversations with characters
I’ve gotten some more written on my current fiction project, but today I was feeling “off” and didn’t really want to write. So instead, I had a conversation with my main character. I thought I’d share it with you here. Meet Alanna. Me: Hey, Alanna. I’m showing up. For some reason I’m not really feeling…
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Manuscript Time Block
Becca Syme has coined the phrase “Manuscript Time Block (MTB)” for her Better-Faster Academy. It represents a 30 minute block of time working on your manuscript in some capacity. That can be actual writing, planning, research, editing, or simply thinking about your current manuscript. The goal is to have one MTB per day. She is…