Gurulazer

30 days, 106 pages, 50,147 words, 2 narrators, 10 major characters, 4 antagonists, 11 (completed) chapters, countless cups of tea, 7 days of Murdock-related shenanigans and 2 visits to the doctor. November has been a busy month to say the least! I decided to take a moment on the last day of National Novel Writing Month to look back over the exercise and see if I learned anything from it (aside from new and improved ways to procrastinate). This has been my first year taking part in the race to fifty thousand words and like all marathons it's been a long haul. I can understand why not everybody finds it a useful method of creative writing. The

It's getting close to the end of week three, so thought I'd post a quick update! The month is drawing to a close and the finish line is in sight for National Novel Writing Month. Having never taken part before, it's certainly been a learning experience for me! I've been writing for fun for a long time now, but it's been a long time since I ever finished something I started; not for lack of trying but for loss of interest. Usually I reach some point just past the middle of what I'm working on and just lose interest; simple as that. The plot hits a wall, the characters start protesting ("I'm not going in there! Have you seen how dangerous it i

Well, it's that time again! Another journal entry, another way to shirk my word count. I'll probably regret it tomorrow... :XD: Week two of NaNoWriMo has been a long chain of distractions for me. I hope it's going better for everybody else because I'm starting to think that someone out there is trying to tell me something! Admittedly, this all started about half way through week one when I started to feel... odd. There's no plainer way to describe it (plus after all the flowery language I've been using to get across how much of a self-important jerk my narrator is, I'm quite happy to just type simply for now). About half way through week one