Prep for NaNoWriMo the Bare Bones Way

New workshop for 2015! Are you a plotter? A panster? A little of both? Have no idea yet? No matter what your writing style, the bare bones method of prepping for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in November or Camp NaNoWriMo in July can help you do just enough prep work for your novel-writing adventure that you enter the challenge

NaNoWriMo 2013 Aftermath

Whew! November is over and NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is finally finished. Did you participate? How did you do? Did you make it to 50,000 words? As my NaNo progress badge in the right column shows, I didn’t reach the that coveted finish line, but in my mind I still succeeded. Why? Because I now have 19,000 more words

NaNoWriMo Home Stretch

Well, here we are the last week of November, the last week of Nano. How are your totals doing? I haven’t been able to participate as much in Nano as I’d first anticipated way back that last week of October when it seemed like the perfect writing motivator, but I’m going to go for one final push this week and

NaNoWriMo Mid-Point

If you’re participating in the annual NaNoWriMo challenge this month to write 50,000 words on your next great novel, you’re now at the midpoint. Halfway there. Halfway done. So how’s your progress been? I started out strong–for two days. Yes, two days. But I haven’t given up yet. I went into the Nano challenge not really expecting to make 50,000