Thursday Tips - Camp NanoWrimo

NanoWrimo tips So I'm having a hell of a time with Camp Nanowrimo this month. So I'm taking a few minutes to look back on my practices from past Nano making some notes on what has worked for me to try and remind myself of what I need to do.
I think this might become something of a regular thing. Thursday tips, so check back often and see what I'm writing about each week. If you have suggestions or requests for a tip list then just comment and I'll see what I can do for you.

• Write in chunks, 3-5 times per day. 
• The minimum is 1,667. We all know the magic number and so many of us struggle to reach it some days. Always try to build in some padding to your word count. Instead of shooting for that aim for 2,000. That way when you're short one day you have that back up. 
• Buy yourself a reward and don't let yourself touch it until you hit that 50k 
• Turn the TV off. If you have to cook/clean/do other chores, make them brief. 
• Limit yourself to checking your emails & Facebook with meals and for no longer the. 30 minutes at a time. This one will be different for each person as everyone uses Facebook and email for different things. The important here is set a limit and stick to it. 
• If you have spare time and for whatever reason can't work directly on your novel then use the time for outlining. 
• Take the time to read the encouraging emails sent out by Nano. They offer a variety of tips and suggestions.
• Find local group, it is great motivation to be writing along side other people with a similar goal. 

Well that's it for now I have a lot of catching up to do at this point.  So back to the word mines.

Thursday Thirteen - Nano Tips

13 NANOWRIMO Tips

1. You can't succeed if you don't try. So sign up at www.nanowrimo.org

2. It is both a race and a marathon.

3. You have nine days to prepare at this point so it is time to get to work there is a lot to do.

4. When it is time for NANO there isn't a lot of time for anything that does further the novel might have to be delayed until December

5. Household choirs - These are one of those things that might need to wait until December, so try and get a head of them now before it is to late

6. Social engagements - These are a lot like house hold choirs push them off to December. If you can't pretend to have some catchy illness, this also works well when dealing with work.

7. Food - Stock a lot of your favourite snacks and pre-make meals if you can for the month

8. Check all your computer equipment. Losing everything at the last minute would suck and with a little bit of caution it shouldn't happen. Despite all the warnings you hear stores of it every year.

9. Distractions - We all have things that we use to distract us. You might want to put them away or hand them off to a friend to keep them out of the way.

10. Have extra paper, pencils, pens even if you are writing on a computer this is still important.

11. Buy a USB Key. Store your work on it and take it with you everywhere.

12. As much work as NANO can be it is also a huge amount of fun too.

13. Tell people what your do and that you won't see them much for the next month. If they know in advance it is one less thing to deal with in November

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I did it

I broke 50k for NANO!!!!!

The book isn't complete I figure I have between 20 and 30 k more
to write before completion and editting can start.

NANO Wrimo Project - Questions of Faith

So this past weekend I reached the half way mark for word count blowing past the twenty five thousand mark with relative easy. It was a lot less effort and a lot less stressfull then it was last year. I don't know if that has more to do with the subject matter or with the writing experience I've gain over the past year. Am righting a none fiction work this time around. Sorry no bits being posted until I get some of the editting done.

Last night I reached the half way mark on questions as well. the twenty six questions have been written, and a few of the holiday question are down as well.

Quotes

So am looking for a couple of quotes for my NANO project. I came across this one while looking for something on Divination.

I've gone to hundreds of fortune-tellers' parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her”

A bit of a logic puzzle

I'm working on my NANOwrimo project and the portion am writing at the moment looks at and discusses how seasons can effect our celebration of the holidays as pagans. In writing I came to an interesting realization. What follows is a excerpt from "Questions of Faith"

The globe offers pagans an interesting dynamic and problem at the same time. While have the world celebrates or grieves the death of a God at Samhain. The other side of the globe is dancing around a May pole and celebrating the conception of that same God. It makes for an interesting contradiction and offers up a real life paradox not unlike one a time traveller in a Science Fiction novel might face. The world is truly a place that is not a place and a time that is not a time apparently

Thursday Thirteen

Thirteen Things to do Before NANOWRIMO Starts 1.... Log back on to the NANOWRIMO website 2.... Update my information on the site 3.... Update my blog to include a participate button 4.... Continue working on basic outline 5.... Decide which of the 60 questions I will be using for the project 6.... Check out the forums and see some old friends. 7.... Order a NANO Wrimo T-shirt or something from the store 8.... Work out the 60 Challenges that will go with each of the questions 9.... Collect a copy of each and every question I have ever asked on all three of the mailing lists in a single location for quick reference. 10.. Set up the folders on my flash drive as well as on the desk top computer so I can back up nightly and not risk losing any data. 11.. Go through my November schedule and free up as much time as possible for writing. While still having the things I need 12.. Do a massive house cleaning so some of that can be ignored during November. 13.. Get as much extra sleep as possible since I will be skipping sleep to writing in November and the bonus one is go through my MPSs and start building play lists.

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Mirror MIrror Universe of NANOWRIMO

So I've finshed writing HorrorfrostI've even finished the first go through of the editing. The finally total after the first round of editing was 10,098 that is 5,098 more then I should have at this point. So now I find myself in the strange Mirror universe of NANO in which I need to delete so many words a day in order to reach my goal.

It is a very strange situation, and really shows the effect NANO can have on your writing and how you come to pad things to get a higher word count...

Break the 5000 wall

As of 10:10 this evening I broke the 5001 mark. That means I am now a full day ahead of schedule. That should hopefully help on the days when there is just two much going on to write.

Ok enough bragging More writting..