My sister Priscilla lent me this great book: The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield. It’s about overcoming the enemy of Resistance. It’s specifically for artists/writers, but it could apply to anyone. Here’s a quotation from the beginning of the book:
Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within [...]
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The War of Art
Posted in NaNoWriMo, writing on February 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
NaNo done, or at least almost
Posted in NaNoWriMo, tagged NaNoWriMo on November 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
First of all, I broke the 50,000 word barrier yesterday, woohoo!
Second of all, I’m not quite done. I still have the final chapter to write. I was worried the NaNoWriMo servers would be overloaded this weekend with people uploading their novels, so I did it before finishing that last chapter. I’ll get [...]
Stalling update
Posted in NaNoWriMo on November 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ah. I wrote another 3,000 words today after I posted earlier. 9,000 or so to go.
Catching up
Posted in NaNoWriMo, tagged NaNoWriMo on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I’m not catching up on blog posts, that’s for sure. I have been running behind on my NaNoWriMo novel. My goal has been to write 2,000 words every day so that I would have some slack time, but I’m about 8,000 words behind.
That’s OK. I’ve changed my writing method in the last couple [...]
Get busy!
Posted in NaNoWriMo, tagged NaNoWriMo on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
NaNoWriMo started yesterday! We had unexpected company in the morning who stayed long enough to get a tour of our house, and then we went to vote, and then we swung by Sears to buy a new grill (yes, we avoided the Weber with the PLASTIC housing), then we had lunch, I did some yoga, [...]
Are we nuts? NaNoWriMo
Posted in NaNoWriMo, tagged NaNoWriMo, novel writing on September 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Several years ago my sister Priscilla and I signed up for National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. You sign up to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. She finished hers, and I got close (43,000 or so words, no ending on the novel). It forced us to write every day. The [...]
