'Children’s writing' Category
NaNo Update From Harriet
Jen’s confession: this is a few days old. My buttinsky comments in green. Yesterday: 7513 words, a new record. Hurrah! Hi there, you people in the real world! I had to make a choice between writing my story or writing a journal entry to you. I cannot do both, I am so sorry. Here are [...]
Heigh-ho NaNo
This is my daily word count record. I can’t help it; I look at that, and I think boooooring. There’s something very dull about the just-over-par steady-eddie pace. Part of me wants to fall way behind and then make a heroic comeback. That seems so exciting. But I really hate the stress and panic of [...]
The NaNo Ride: Cruising At Last
If this were a race, I’d put my money on Harriet. I don’t think the dreaded deep, dark forest of Week Two is even going to slow her down. I predict she’ll hit 50,000 words mid-month and keep cruising to an 80,000+-word finish. I, on the other hand, will putt-putt-putt my way through the month, [...]
NaNoWriMo Update
Harriet, Ziggy, and I are participating in NaNoWriMo, writing 50,000 word novels in the thirty short days of November. Here’s the first progress report from Harriet: Harriet: Last year Jen told us in either the Bookmarks 101 Class or on the blog at S4L, I do not remember, that she was off to a writing [...]
NaNoWriMo-a-go-go
It’s official! Harriet and I are in. We have both accepted the challenge to compose a 50,000-word novel in the thirty days of November. (Harriet will wisely stick with the Norwegian language for this.) But that’s not all, oh no no no. We’re also going to stitch a bookmark or two or three during writing [...]
Creative Gifts – Day #21
Yesterday, we talked about charitable contributions, gift certificates, and homemade coupons for services and shared time. Today, we’re going dress those up in a whole lot of fun: We’re going to wrap them in a puzzle, the most entertaining gift wrap I know. It’ll be a snap; I’ll show you. Choose a place where you [...]
NaNotWriMo
It’s November 5. I should be at 10,000 words in my NaNo novel by the end of today, were I on my usual NaNo schedule, but unless I can pound out 10k words today, I don’t see it happening. That’s right, I have zero words written so far. It’s National Not Writing Month for me. [...]
Becca’s Question
Becca asked, “Where are you?” Answer: Here. Who can most precisely name the location? Well, du-uh, of course it’s got to be a game. Critique group members and their families are excluded. Void where prohibited.
NaNoWriMo Time-O
Well, I did it. I formally threw my hat into the NaNo ring. I’m just a girl who can’t say no. This is year five. It really is kind of ridiculous. I’ve been piling things on my winter plate, and, as always, I am a glutton. I will not be home for the first half [...]
Writeoncon
The first annual Writeoncon is drawing to a close. I’m not being presumptuous when I say “annual”; the Founders have already said they plan to do it again. I’ve already raved about how necessary and useful on online conference is, especially for those of us in rural areas, so I’ll refrain from doing it again. [...]
