www.youwriteon.com/ Winners read by Dan Brown publisher Arts Council funding programmed
How I did it: Wrote in the mornings before work at diners. Stopped at Panera Bread to write on the way home some nights. Did marathons at Starbucks or at home on the weekends that racked up a lot of words. Didn't get discouraged when I was way behind (well, there was that one day...)
This was so worth doing. Really restored my faith in writing. It is necessary to my happiness, whether I publish or not.
Lessons & tips: Use the 15, 30 and 45 minute Word Wars online if you can. It's much easier to focus on pounding out as much as you can in a short amount of time rather than to sit there wondering what to do with the time you have allotted. If you don't have a connection where you are, have a word war with yourself!
Resources: www.nanowrimo.org
No Plot? No Problem by Chris Batey
RuthG lives.
I’m so proud of you!
SallyKitt "Action is the antidote to despair" - Joan Baez
I am going to continue to work on it today. The advice is to skip to the ending if 50,000 words isn’t the end. Seems like a good idea, so I’m doing that today and tomorrow.
Being Bryn is having her best summer yet!
Nice going! Knew you’d do it!
SallyKitt "Action is the antidote to despair" - Joan Baez
It was worth it, no matter what. Got a lot of stuff out of the way, if nothing else. And also got some good stuff, I think.
Congratulations! (Give me… uh, twenty four hours… and I’ll be right there with you.)
SallyKitt "Action is the antidote to despair" - Joan Baez
You’ll love yourself for it.
(And if you don’t hit 50,000 words, you have my permission to love yourself for each and every syllable you did get down!)
Now go! Write!
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