Despite my protestations that I'm an editor, not a writer, I find that the pull of NaNoWriMo is irresistible. It's Day 5 and my wordcount is north of 15K (which is WAY ahead of schedule....). I'm trying to pad earlier, while I'm excited and have time, knowing that later in the month, I'll be busy ... VIEW POST
November, day 1 reflections
I didn't mean to do it, but I ended up staying up last night for the midnight (on the east coast...) launch of the Digital Writing Month project. The challenge launched at midnight was a collaborative poetry project. It was, in a word, fascinating. At midnight, a Google Document was opened to ... VIEW POST
I Am A Winner
I crossed the 50,000 word threshold a day early (actually my official word count is 50,330), and I have validated and received my official Winner badge and certificate. I do not actually have a novel that I could share with anyone, but the important thing to me was the discipline of working ... VIEW POST
Just an update
There are probably only about 2 of you that care, but here's an update from my post from Thursday: 1. Lego League mock competition: the project presentation was awesome: they blew away the judges. They had 2 interviews that went well, but we have some thing to talk about. The robot portion ... VIEW POST
What I am actually doing this month
I'm almost not sure I can believe I'm going to say this out loud (type it out loud? uh...whatever...), but here goes nothing: I am writing a novel. It's Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month), which means that nearly 200,000 writers are attempting to write 50,000 words in the month of ... VIEW POST
