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NaNo–Day 3
What a way to start the day, with 3,000 words in the morning and 3,000 more at night! Current word count: 10,459. Awesome!
NaNo–Day 2
4443 words down. I had a great time at the local write-in and drank two glasses of lemonade. The scenes that came yesterday? Worked on them. Looking forward to further developing the rules of this novel’s world tomorrow.
Doodle a Day
Doodles 80 to 97.
NaNo–Day 1
National Novel Writing Month is finally here! Got off to a great start this morning with 3,440 words. Two scenes I didn’t expect came to mind while working on the beginning, so I’m looking forward to tackling those tomorrow.
Three Departments
My creative life can be divided into three sections: art, fiction, and poetry. I’ve been using a Moleskine Planner to help me keep track of which projects in each section I worked on for the day. And the facing pages are great for lists and brainstorming. I haven’t used a planner since I was in …
Doodle a Day
Doodles 56-79.
Poetry Project Update
Poetry Project #6: Less than 60 songs left from Nightwish. The goal is to finish them before the new album is released next year, and then do those songs! Poetry Project #7: I finished the Firefly episodes and the Serenity movie. So fun to write with orange ink in an orange handmade book. Poetry Project …
Journal 18
I finished Journal 18!
Novel a Month Update
I finished reading “Sense and Sensibility.” At the beginning of the month I started working on Novel #5 for three days. Then Novel #7 was born, so I focused on Novel #7. For September, I will focus on Novel #7 and continue reading Jane Austen’s novel in preparation for NaNo (Novel #6) in November.
The Opposite of Loneliness
What a beautiful book! Every writer needs to read Marina’s stories and essays. I was particularly thrilled that one of the stories mentions crumbs in a jar and one of the essays is about her childhood and dealing with Celiac Disease.