Feature: NaNoWriMo Notes
The trials, tribulations, and fun of trying to write 50,000 words in one month.
Gypsyman has finally cracked his brainpan, and is competing in the National Novel Writing Month, as well as trying to crank out an article a day for Blogcritics.org.
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Give It Away: One Solution To The Book Publishing Blues— I'm willing to let people read what I've written. Now the question remains - are people going to be willing to read it?
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NaNoWriMo Notes: More Fun With Publishing— ...when the rejection letter eventually showed up I wasn't surprised at all — it had become inevitable.
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Why I'm Happy To Fail At NaNoWriMo This Year— It doesn't matter how much you write or how long it takes; what matters is that you write.
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NaNoWriMo Notes #35: The End— I'm going to keep writing and keep seeing what comes of it for a while yet. It's only the end of this series after all, not me.
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NaNoWriMo Notes #34: Reading and Writing— I've always been a voracious reader... I've become a writer.
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NaNoWriMo Notes #33: Modern Times— I wonder what sort of karmic debt I'm paying off by having to use the equipment of these modern times.
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NaNoWriMo Notes #31: The Return Of NaNoWriMo
— Perhaps NaNoWriMo is a little too much like the old Chinese curse of "May you live in interesting times" for some.
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NaNoWriMo Notes #31: Singularity Of Purpose— The more you care, the more care you take, and the more you'll take care of what is truly important to you.
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NaNoWriMo Notes #30: I'm Just Getting Started— I'm not about to let a little thing like a rejection letter stop me now. I've only just started.
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NaNoWriMo Notes #29: It's All In The Voice— A writer's voice is the soul of his or her work. Cut this out and you leave a shell of the story behind.
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NaNoWriMo Notes #28: Accomplishment— But I won't really have a feeling of accomplishment ... until it is published by someone other than me.
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NaNoWriMo Notes 27: Pride, Price, and Profit— You end up charging more then most people are prepared to pay.
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NaNoWriMo Notes #26: No Free Ride— There's not much point in using any of the web services offering "book publicity".
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NaNoWriMo Notes #25: Publicity, Publicity, Publicity— Who knows, I may even sell a copy.
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NaNoWriMo Notes #23: Remembering Gratitude— I will do my best to remember that I'm doing what I want. What can be better than that?
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NaNoWriMo Notes 22: Wishing For Quiet— Out of silence ideas are born.
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NaNoWriMo Notes 21: A Writer Observed— This is a field that cries out for further study and intense analysis.
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NaNoWriMo Notes 20: Gettin' To Know You— Re-writes and editing were not just exercises in cleaning and polishing, but a means of reintroducing myself to the characters.
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NaNoWriMo Notes 19: Lost And Found— It's all a matter of ensuring that I don't disappoint the critic who matters the most to me: me.
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NaNoWriMo Notes 18: Originality Above All— "every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself, and the artist who plays that country false has committed suicide..."
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NaNoWriMo Notes 17: To Cut Or Not To Cut?— Try to have an objective opinion on something you've put so much sweat into.
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NaNoWriMo Notes 16: Waiting For Replies— An interlude post as we await with bated breath anything exciting happening in a writer's life.
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NaNoWriMo Notes 15: A Writer's Born
— I've discovered that I've written a really good book that deserves to be published.
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NaNoWriMo Notes #14: Writing Is Writing— Writing is writing after all.
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NaNoWriMo Notes #13: Fear Of Finishing
— Not only will it mark the successful completion of my first novel, hopefully it will see the conquering of some old fears.
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NaNoWri Notes 12: What Every Writer Needs— Everyone may be creative, but to be any type of artist requires a mixture of characteristics that not everybody possesses.
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NaNoWriMo Notes #12: What's My Genre?— I'm beginning to realize that writing the books is the easy part of being a novelist. It's what comes after you're finished that's difficult.
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NaNoWriMo Notes 11: The Doubting Game— I discovered new ways of becoming my own worst enemy.
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NaNoWriMo Notes: The End Is Nigh— Maybe they will never get published except through my own means; that won't take anything away from the fact that I created a world, populated it with people I like, and told a part of the story of their lives.
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Where Have All The Voices Gone?— If he listens very carefully these days he's able to hear the sound of voices in his head that were silent for far too long.
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Post NaNoWriMo Traumatic Stress Syndrome
— ...even though I have to work alone when writing, it doesn't necessarily me that I have to be alone with my work.
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NaNoWriMo Notes: Final Thoughts
— The fact that I, or anybody else for that matter, write at all is pretty darn special.
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NaNoWriMo Notes #8: 50,000 Words. Now What?— Fifty thousand words was the easy part, now I have to finish the thing.
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NaNoWriMo Notes 7: Into The Homestretch— To quote the great sage Bugs Bunny: "This feels like the beginnings of a "bee-u-tee-ful" friendship"
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NaNoWriMo Notes 6: First Week and a Title— I have to admit that after my opening day butterflies I've been having a hoot.
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NaNoWriMo Notes 5: The Final Checklist— My wife...will most likely, and wisely, just try and stay out of my way for the duration.
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NaNoWriMo Notes: Pre Season Training— I've decided to take a tip from the world of athletics; get in training.
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NaNoWriMo Notes: Panic Attacks And Group Aversion— If all else fails, and I write enough of these posts, they could turn out to be my winning entry.
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NaNoWriMo Notes: Why? Why Not.— Now that I've settled why the hell I'm doing this — what the hell am I going to do?
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NaNoWriMo Notes: Why I'm Writing a Novel in November
— You may even find out that you're a writer.
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