by Paul Stephenson | Nov 5, 2019 | Nanowrimo, Writing, Writing Chronicles
Here we go again. 30 days. 50,000 words. My eighth Nanowrimo. If you’re not familiar with the concept, National Novel Writing Month is a worldwide competition where people pit themselves against the calendar and try to write the first draft of a novel in a month. What...
by Paul Stephenson | Nov 26, 2018 | General, Nanowrimo, Net hate
Photo by Nicholas Punter on Unsplash At some point this year I committed myself to writing at least one blog post a week, because content is king, baby, and because I’m trying to drive people here so that they’ll put an email address into that little...
by Paul Stephenson | Oct 8, 2018 | Nanowrimo, Stupid Challenges, Writing, Writing Chronicles
I love NaNoWriMo, the yearly escapade of struggling writers everywhere where we collectively throw ourselves off a cliff of sanity in pursuit of a 50,000 word count and a printable pdf certificate. This year, since I’m completely new to where I live, I’m doubly...
by Paul Stephenson | Oct 31, 2016 | Nanowrimo, Net joy, Writing
Here we go again. 30 days. 50,000 words. My sixth Nanowrimo. If you’re not familiar with the concept, National Novel Writing Month is a worldwide competition where people pit themselves against the calendar and try to write the first draft of a novel in a month.It has...
by Paul Stephenson | Oct 24, 2016 | Nanowrimo, Writing
For the past five years or so, I’ve been working on the same story. Well, three chapters in the same story, but writing the Blood on the Motorway trilogy has been me playing in one sandbox for the whole time. Same characters, same world, same apocalypse. I love those...
by Paul Stephenson | Dec 8, 2014 | Nanowrimo, Writing
That was, it has to be said, a stupid idea. I knew full well that November was going to be a nightmare month at work, and yet I decided to commit to NaNoWriMo. Stupid. Work turned out to be far more stressful than I had actually foreseen, and getting across that...
