Blogs Posts on "Nanowrimo"

Shirley writes a book by The Pineapple Report on Nov 21, 2009All month Laverne has devoted herself to my nanowrimo project.  She has tirelessly slept on my feet or with her head next to my lap anytime I sat down to write.  But Shirley was feeling really left out and upped the game last night.  F...

Day 20 of NaNoWriMo — The Tortoise and the Hare by Sand Castles -- Clean Everyday Humor on Nov 20, 2009I pretty much have been writing on the novel every day this month, certainly thinking about it on the couple or three days when I didn’t write. I am not normally the slow and steady writer. I love research probably more than I love story-tellin...

NaNoWriMo Strikes Back! by Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West on Nov 16, 2009Well, just when I thought I had this NaNoWriMo beast tamed, it snuck up and bit me in the butt. I’m behind again, though only by a day. One problem is my eyeballs. They just don’t want to stay open and stare at a computer all day. Before I start...

Day 16 of NaNo — Saddly Saggin’ Motivation by Sand Castles -- Clean Everyday Humor on Nov 16, 200922,000+ words done for NaNoWriMo so far (nearly half way there), and I’m really, really lacking motivation. Maybe it’s the realization that half of those words will be deleted, with the other half needing to be rewritten. Maybe it’...

by The Garapata Can Speak on Nov 16, 2009Chapter Five: KatipunerosIt was 1892 when a group of revolutionaries in Manila founded a society composed of anti-Spanish Filipinos. The names of Andres Bonifacio, Ladislao Diwa and Teodoro Plata are remembered as the roots upon which the secret org...

by The Garapata Can Speak on Nov 14, 2009Chapter Four: BoniAmong the many things a person could find himself yearning for at such a time as this, a firm ripe banana was probably not the first thing one would have on the list. If one were to look around, the vast array of billboards that c...

Day 13 — Writing in All Circumstances(?) by Sand Castles -- Clean Everyday Humor on Nov 13, 2009I remember reading how Ann Landers (or was it her sister Abby?) commented how she wrote through all sorts of trials and problems, including the death of a parent. Granted, she (whichever one) had a contract/job, and had to keep writing in order to ma...

NaNoWriMo: Hell Week or Honeymoon? by Davy Crockett's Almanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West on Nov 9, 2009Week One was a little of each. Not quite as bad as Hell Week at the old Kappa Sigma fraternity house - sleep-deprived, starved, dehydrated, hectored, harangued and thoroughly mindf***ed. Not as good as the week my wife and I honeymooned in Great Brit...

by The Garapata Can Speak on Nov 6, 2009Nanowrimo 2009 Entry: Surviving Manila: Risen ThreatChapter Two: KaQoHThe Metro Rail Transit had a total of thirteen stations. The stations were not identical, having been built to take advantage of both the terrain and nearby structures. Some, l...

NaNoWriMo, Day 6 – Permission to write Dreck; The Sloppy Copy by Sand Castles -- Clean Everyday Humor on Nov 6, 2009Anne Lamott in her great book on writing, Bird by Bird, has a chapter called “Shitty First Drafts” – crude, but accurate, IMHO. I prefer thinking of my first drafts as vomit. Similar idea. I throw up words onto my computer screen, and w...