Tag Archives: nanowrimo

How’d the Holidays get so close?

It’s been on my calendar for months, I booked my ticket weeks ago, yet here I am days before take off wondering where on earth the time has flown.

NaNo is over now what?

This has been the busiest November I can ever recall spending. Happily the stress level was low but my emotions ran the full gauntlet of a loop-de-loop rollercoaster.

The Inagural Transit Write-In

If you happened to be on the skytrain system in Vancouver, you might have noticed a bunch of people frantically writing on their laptops or going old school with a pen and paper. That was us.

What else am I doing beside NaNo

I’ve become obsessed with talking about NaNo even though I’m doing a crapload of other things.

We Rocked the Library

So during the month of November many of my friends, who are also writers, do Nanowrimo. It’s crazy, it’s fun, I’m 1/4 of the way through writing a new manuscript and I learned last night just how crazy writer’s are in general. Last night we had a write-in at the library. Over 30 people were [...]

What a day

At the end of day one for NaNoWriMo I was already behind.

Can you feel the excitement?

Sunday is the start of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) AND half price chocolate day.

2 days to NaNoWriMo

Are you a planner or a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pantser. I am definitely a pantser.

How’d it get to be Wednesday already?

They say time flies when you’re having fun and I totally believe it. I’ve always been a writer. I know that might sound a bit pretentious but it’s true. I’ve always told stories. I still have notebooks from creative writing classes back in elementary school and realize I was pretty darn good. Mom was right [...]

Here We Go!

Now it’s time to organize my notes from the conference so I don’t feel so overwhelmed then buckle down to edit submitted material before I’m allowed to change gears again and outline my plan for this year’s NaNo.