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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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Journal 21–Complete

I finished Journal 21, one of the books I made using the French Link Stitch.

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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 …

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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 …

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Journal 20–Complete

I finished my 20th journal. I purchased it at the Ohio Renaissance Festival.

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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 …

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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.

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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.

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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.

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NaNo–Day 22

57,877 words. I have introduced two new characters, and I’ve picked names for four more. This novel still has not reached a conclusion, but it has started a new and interesting arc.

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