Posted in Writing, tagged #amwriting, creative writing, nanowrimo, novel writing, writing life on 26 Nov 2019| Leave a Comment »
The final week of this year’s NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) has been a mixed bag. Overall, I have to say I’m pleased with the experiment. Using NaNoWriMo as a way to simply increase my productivity has proved a much better approach (for me) than setting some unrealistic (for me) word-count goal. (more…)
Posted in Writing, tagged #amwriting, creative writing, nanowrimo, novel writing, writing life on 21 Nov 2019| Leave a Comment »
Week Three of NaNoWriMo has been productive. Sort of.
At the end of last week, I was facing a scene I’ve been dreading for a long time. A sex scene.
I hate writing sex scenes. (more…)
Posted in Writing, tagged #amwriting, creative writing, nanowrimo, novel writing, writing life on 14 Nov 2019| Leave a Comment »
My second week of NaNoWriMo went better than my first, and there’s a reason for that (apart from my getting back into the flow of writing, that is).
Like many writers, I’ve often used a soundtrack to set an audio foundation for my writing time. A soundtrack can do two things. First, it can set a consistent mood that underpins the prose as I write, and second, it can help block out the sounds of the real world and allow me to concentrate more fully on the world I’m trying to get out of my head. (On the downside, it can also ruin a particular album/artist, as eventually, due to repetition and earworms, I grow sick of what I’m listening to.) (more…)
Posted in Writing, tagged #amwriting, creative writing, nanowrimo, novel writing, writing life on 07 Nov 2019| 1 Comment »
It wasn’t a good first week for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), but progress, albeit modest, was made.
I suspect my challenges are the same as many of yours:
Posted in Writing, tagged creative writing, nanowrimo, novel writing, writing life on 26 Oct 2019| 4 Comments »
Posted in Writing, tagged creative writing, nanowrimo, novel writing, Writing, writing fast, writing techniques, writing tips on 19 Aug 2013| 8 Comments »
The glorification of “speed writing” baffles me.
I know several writers who can write very fast. An old colleague (a swooper by habit) could tap out 30,000 words in a weekend. One author of my acquaintance has ghost-written a book in ten days, and blogged about it while he was doing it.
In the Clarion writer workshops, you pretty much have to write a story a day during the two-week “boot camp” experience.
Then there’s NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month (aka November). If you’re a writer, you’ve heard about it. Perhaps you’ve even tried your hand at it. NaNoWriMo has chapters across the world, and has inspired a handful of imitators that encourage others by asking “Why wait until November? Write your novel this month!” (more…)
Kurt R.A. Giambastiani 