30/11/2011
The End
We got here. Some have completed 50,000 words and others, well, we took part, we tried, we toiled and we created new worlds, introduced new people, killed off a dozen, explored new planets and travelled many miles.
I didn’t WROTE make my 50,ooo this year! but I don’t feel that I failed. I’m hyped and ready to continue at a slower pace, taking time to re-read and probably, if I’m honest, delete around half of it and begin to shape the real story hiding within the sprawling mess.
Not yet though. That’s for next week.
Tonight – let’s just celebrate!
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29/11/2011
Writing Prompt #29
Be intimate with the world”
Natalie Goldberg: The first thing that comes to mind when I think about the writing life. . . I just think of space. Time to daydream. Time to notice things.
Space is inherently important to the author, allowing her time to receive, reflect and simply be in the world.
Watch Goldberg discuss her beliefs and philosophies in her beautiful town of Taos, New Mexico, in this new video from Open Road Integrated Media
On the second last day of nanowrimo what could be more inspiring than a little piece of magic from Natalie Goldberg.
…. Natalie Goldberg on the writing life, place and space
- Check out Natalie Golberg’s website for booklinks, workshops and information
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27/11/2011
Writing Prompt #27
Is it cheating to add characters with long names, say, 20,000+ words?
Writing through the night because sometimes that’s all the time there is.
Writing Prompt #27
howling at the
night sky
moon
stars
blackness
darkness
you decide…
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26/11/2011
Writing Prompt #26
Are we there yet? This is the last weekend before the end of nanowrimo so, of course, in the laws of natural injustice, this is the very weekend that everything else intrudes to keep you away from your writing.
Don’t worry if you’re too busy; don’t fret if family decide that THIS is the weekend they want to start pre-christmas cleaning/painting the bathroom/clearing out the garage.
Join in, have fun, think up a new, final, devastating plot twist to take you into the final few days. And imagine your name on the author list at next year’s Edinburgh Int. Book Festival
Writing Prompt #26
she was signing her fourteenth book when something odd caught her attention
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