National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) 2020 starts tomorrow! I can’t believe it’s here already. My NaNoWriMo Goal So, what am I doing for NaNoWriMo? Well, I’m writing the first book in my paranormal cosy mystery series. The idea for this book comes from a novelette I wrote in…
Well, folks, NaNoEdMo is over. Did I complete the challenge? I wish I could say I did, but I didn’t. I managed to edit five chapters, so 45 chapters short of 50. However, thanks to NaNoEdMo, I broke my 2018 editing-chapter record. For months, it was a miracle…
November is soon upon us, and that can only mean one thing for writers from all over the world: it’s NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) time. NaNoWriMo is where writers pledged to write at least 50,000 words of their novel in November. I first heard about NaNoWriMo in…
When I decided to write a novel, I knew a lot of hard work would be involved. However, I never expected that my novel would take so long to get it to a submission-ready level. I wrote my novel in 2015, and after a two-month break, I started…
It’s June! Yes, it’s June. I can’t believe it. I don’t know what’s happening to the year. But now that we’ve reached halfway through the year, I’m starting to worry about my 2017 writing goals. However, instead of being hard on myself for not meeting my goals, I…
Wow, November is over already. It feels like I blinked and the month was finished. So with the end of November, it also means that it’s the end of NaNoEdMo (and NaNoWriMo). I would like to say that I’m celebrating reaching my goal (completing the third draft of…
It’s November 1st, and that can only mean one thing – it’s finally time for NaNoEdMo (or NaNoWriMo for those writing a novel this month). I can’t believe how quickly November has come round. It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was deciding whether to take part…
Having noticed that I haven’t edited my novel since July, I have decided to again take part in NaNoEdMo (National Novel Editing Month). Originally, I wanted to take part in NaNoWriMo, but with focusing on my World War Two stories for my writing group WW2 anthology, editing and…
When I started editing my novel, I never thought it would take a year before I finished the second draft. I often sit and wonder what I was doing in all that time. But the only answer I have is that editing (if you want to do it…
I started writing my current novel in November 2014 as part of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and completed the first draft in February 2015. Wow, just writing down that date makes me realise that I have been working on this novel for a very long time. At…