As I type this, NaNoWriMo 2016 moves into its final hours. Some of you who participated have completed your word count and downloaded your winner’s certificate. Others are manically pounding the keyboard, determined to beat the midnight deadline. And many are nowhere near 50,000 words and have given up hope of flaunting a winner’s T-shirt. […]
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Go: Challenge Yourself
Have you stretched some personal comfort zones and flexed those writing muscles yet? Great. I’m glad to hear you’re building your skills. That means it’s time to challenge ourselves to do something new. Okay, I’ll go first. There have been times I’ve become so comfortable writing a certain style or genre that I began to […]
Racing Toward the NaNoWriMo Finish Line
You’re almost to the halfway mark of your NaNoWriMo challenge today. If you’re on target, you’ve written 21,671 words. Give yourself a pat on the back, and take ten minutes to inhale any chocolate left in your cupboard. Okay, what if you’re not on target with your word count? No need to despair. (And no […]
When Push Comes to Shove
Yes, there will be moments like these, my friend. When it becomes a struggle to rip thoughts from the maw of your seething brain and forge them in flame, shaping them into words with meaning. There will be days it becomes an insurmountable challenge to excavate ideas from the depths of your psyche and build […]