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Bitter / Sweet Ending to NaNoWriMo 2009

Karen

Yes. I realize this video is seven months old.

However, I’m posting it as a segway into the next several day’s posts.

I wrote this series of short stories as an experiment for NaNoWriMo 2009. It was hard. Really hard. Well, watch the video.

But it was also interesting, and challenging, to write a series of short stories transferring minor characters from one story and writing them in as the main character in the next story.

I intended these stories to be a series of one long chain that would eventually come full circle. Only, I never made it to the full circle part. I also tried to write these stories so that they would stand alone, too. I’m not sure if I was successful though, as I feel like I need to post the stories in the order that I wrote them just so you’ll “get” it.

These next several days will be devoted to writing – both fiction and how-tos / informational. I’m taking some of the posts that were written on Write Anything and re-posting them here. If you haven’t been to Write Anything, I highly recommend it. In fact, a little bird told me that they are on the verge of restructuring their format and since I’ve been allowed to read a bit of what they have planned and can’t be terribly specific, I can tell you that it’s going to ROCK the writing world.

Mark my words.

Thanks for reading.

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NaNoWriMo Update

Karen

I’m chugging along. I got sidetracked because of all of the birthdays this month, but now that they’re done ….

I have Thanksgiving to get through. *sigh*

So. I’m going to work my tail end off and hopefully have close to 40,000 words BEFORE Thanksgiving gets here.

We’ll see …

After I write this next story, I plan on printing out the pages, which should be around 80 by that time. I can’t wait to fill up my notebook!

NaNoWriMo’s, how are you doing?

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Video: NaNoWriMo Tips to Meet Halfway Mark

Karen

Hello fellow WriMos!

We’re nearly at the halfway mark, which means you should be close to 25,000 words. But don’t worry if you’re not, you still have the entire weekend. Just shoo your family away, fire up that laptop/computer/pad & pencil and WRITE. Don’t think about it too much, just dig in.

As you can see ——–>, I’m not there yet, but I WILL be. Here are some tips to help you reach your goal.

As for me, I have a super busy weekend planned. Today, I’m heading up to the motorcycle place to pick up Kevin’s dirt bike (dirty carburetor), and possibly trade it in for a street bike (if that actually happens, watch for another post).

Then? Grocery shopping. (Boo).

Then? WRITE! I will likely go to the MSU library, with Red Bull in hand, and furiously write one, two, possibly three? (HA! Right) stories.

Tomorrow, I have laundry, other household chores, family time and THEN more writing. That’s IF I can get away from my family. My guys (and by “my guys”, I mean my hunky husband) tend to get a wee bit cranky whenever I pour all of my attention into my writing and not them. 🙂

So, the word for this weekend?!

WRITE!

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NaNoWriMo 2009: Stories Four / Five

Karen

NaNoWriMo Update: I actually ended up not writing at all yesterday. Guess what, the burn out has already started.

See? Told you. I’m nothing if not predictable.

However, I feel energized after my day off, and I plan on writing stories six and seven today. Again, I’m trying to stay ahead of the game so that I CAN take a day off.

You can keep track of my overall word count in the sidebar. So far? I’m ahead of the game – let’s see if I can’t keep it that way.

Thanks for reading.