I am slightly late with this one, purely because I needed to spend some time away from my computer after spending basically the entire month strapped to it and feeling guilty if I had a moment of time away from my writing. I can officially say that I have won NaNoWriMo 2019, I reached 50,002…
I have definitely ended up hitting my stride this week, I really enjoyed writing my story for the last couple of days, it has been a nice change from the last week or so. The self-doubt is still there and I am still panicking about the fact that this story isn’t good enough or long…
This has been the week of resentment and overwhelming self-doubt. I now work in a library and I love it. It has really reignited my love of reading, which for the last couple of months has been a really good thing, but now that I am having to write 1667 words every day that is…
The first week of NaNoWriMo is officially over and I do not want to jinx anything but it has gone exceedingly well. I have used the Save the Cat plotting cheat sheet and I genuinely think it has saved me this time around, it has made me pace myself a lot more slowly than other…
Obviously, I’m mad, but I am taking part in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) again this year and I’m actually really excited. I have been playing with this idea of actually planning my novel before jumping into the story and have some idea of how I want things to end up going. It’s an odd…
I swear I write one of these like every six months and I’m sad to say that this another writing update that doesn’t have a great news. I haven’t written a single word of my novel since my failed attempt at NaNoWriMo. I think the main reason being is that I am a huge planner…
This is it, this is the moment where I make a conscious effort to finish my goddamn novel. I declare complete writing incompetence. It has been too long to justify anymore, and the novel is crying out for some much-needed attention. So I’m writing it here in the hope that it will hold me accountable…
I have been putting writing this post off for so long in the vain hope that I would get my act together and start writing my NaNoWriMo draft. Well, I haven’t. December was a write off in my mind, I did blogmas on here and that took the majority of my time and energy, I…
I finished November and NaNoWriMo with a half completed NaNoWriMo draft and a whole load of editing to do. Having to not only finish a story but then go back and edit all the parts that you hate out of it. That is completely overwhelming. In fact it’s so easy to lose sight of everything…
I can’t believe it’s my last NaNoWriMo update, it makes me sad to think I’ll have to wait a whole year to participate again. But boy am I glad that it’s over! This month has really been a tough one and I genuinely didn’t know if I was going to make it to the end….