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Goals for 2015–January Update
Poems Read: 100/365 Poems Written: 6/365 Short Stories Read: 9/365 Short Stories Written: 3/52 Sketches: 65/365 Art Pieces: 9/52 Handmade Books: 5/52 Books Read: 7/52 Submissions: 5/250 Videos: 0/156 Finish Nightwish Poetry Project by April: Polish a novel draft by June: finished NaNo draft, printed draft Put together a book of poetry by July: gathered …
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Don’t Break the Fiction Writing Chain
I’ve written fiction every day for fourteen days in a row. The Don’t Break the Chain Calendar has been a useful motivation tool to keep track of my progress. There is also a dinosaur version here. I’ve completed one short story, wrapped up my 2014 NaNo novel, and wrote the first draft of my graphic …
NaNo Novel–Complete
I finished the first draft of my 2014 NaNo novel. My 2013 NaNo novel draft did not reach the end of the story, and that draft is still unfinished. So I tried to do better with the 2014 NaNo Novel. I finished the draft on January 2, and I printed it out. Now to do …
Goals for 2015
My word of the year for 2015 is Create, which was also my word of the year for 2012. Read 365 poems Write 365 poems Read 365 short stories Write 52 short stories Make 365 sketches Make 52 art pieces Make 52 handmade books Read 52 books Submit 250 times Make 3 videos a week, …
Organizing Notebooks
I love sitting down and organizing my books, my writing journals, and my art supplies. This time, I found two blank journals for one of my novel projects and two blank journals with no designated project (oh, the freedom!). And there are plenty of notebooks that aren’t finished. So they will stay in this shoebox …
NaNo–Day 30
At 82,752 words, I am amazed at how much I wrote this month. This is the first year that I finished before the 27th (finished on the 21st). And I finally (FINALLY) validated my NaNo novel, so I officially won NaNo, even though my novel is not quite at the end yet. It has been …
NaNo–Day 26
On November 25, I made it to 74,063 words and on November 26, I made it to 78,934 words. After five days of not knowing how the novel ends, I had a breakthrough. So now the goal is to either make it to 100,000 words or to reach the end of the story.
NaNo–Day 24
71,099 words. This is the first NaNo that I have finished the 50,000 words so early (reached that milestone on the 21st). Now the goal is to reach the novel’s conclusion. In order to reach the 70,000 mark, I bought three drinks from Biggby (I had a coupon, okay?) as motivation. And it worked.
NaNo–Day 23
I enjoyed a local write in and was so inspired with my story that I wrote some more at home. 65,073 words.
Suzanna and Writing 