Guest Post by Sheryl Scarborough We shouldn’t be surprised or amazed when our writing suddenly starts to click. After all, this is what we’ve been practicing, perfecting, mastering and perhaps even MFA’ing, right? So it makes sense that as we grow as writers we will become more proficient. We will find our centers and words…
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How to UP Your Word Count and Write Like a Boss! (Part 1)
Guest post by Sheryl Scarborough Stephen King does 2,000 words per day. Ann Rice kicks ass with 5,000 per day! I just finished the first draft of a new novel… my third. I wrote it fast, with a vengeance. 280 pages, 63k words, 10 weeks. BAM! That’s Wham, bam, thank you ma’am speed. Finishing this…
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Five Things I Learned From Doing NaNoWriMo
It’s been nine months since I participated in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and wrote 50,000 words of a novel in under a month. It’s one thing to bask in the manic euphoria of pounding out 50,000 words like an intense sprint around a track. But it’s completely different thing to step back and look at…
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NaNoWriMo Update: Week Two (and a Half)
It’s seventeen days into NaNoWriMo and I’ve crossed the halfway threshold. But before I continue this post, I need to mention a few quirks about my personality. I might be slightly competitive. I’m an overachiever. I hate pressure (aka: I was never that person who waited till the last minute to finish something. I can’t…
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NaNoWriMo Update: Week One
It’s officially been one week since I started the NaNoWriMo challenge. I’ve always been very snobby about the idea of writing 50,000 words in a month. Would such an exercise be worth my time? I even began to waffle in the days before November 1st, sure I was about to commit myself to tossing one…