by Katherine Villyard | Jul 7, 2007 | nanowrimo, novels, writing mysticism
I’m running the NaNovel through critique group right now, and even though I made several passes through it and tried to flesh it out, it’s still kind of rushed. It used to feel very much like… if you’ve ever heard Jaws, the screenreading...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 27, 2007 | nanowrimo, scripts
NaNoEdMo starts in two days. So why am I excited about Script Frenzy instead? I used to love editing and agonize over first drafts. I think NaNoWriMo cured me of the agonizing, so maybe that’s part of it. I have no idea what I’m going to do for Script...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 19, 2007 | nanowrimo, novels, short fiction
My online critique group is oddly silent about my under 500 word flash fic. Perhaps they’re struck dumb by its brilliance. Or its badness. Heh. For NaNoWriMo this year, I’m considering going Greek. I have an idea I’ve been kicking around for...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 31, 2006 | life, the universe, and everything, nanowrimo, novels, scripts, short fiction
Yes, it’s the obligatory New Year’s resolutions post! I’m sure you can hardly wash. Yay! Write more. I did poorly with the short story deadlines, but maybe they were too short. One short story a month, excepting March, June, and November, which...
by Katherine Villyard | Nov 27, 2006 | nanowrimo, novels
I think it needs to expand out, like an accordian. Later. I reread part of the beginning. It’s better than I remembered. It’s… funny. I’m still a couple of rewrites from the decision of whether I want to ‘fess up to it in public,...
by Katherine Villyard | Nov 25, 2006 | nanowrimo
42,093 / 50,000 : 84.2% I have NaNoWriMo fatigue. I’m ready for this to be over. The question is whether I want to try to marathon extra words or just slow and steady finish the last 8,000 words over the next four days. We’ll see how I feel tomorrow, but I...
by Katherine Villyard | Nov 19, 2006 | cats, nanowrimo
I’m at 33,717 words, but I also have a sick kitty. She’s our current Queen Kitty, and the other cats are worried. I completely blew off yesterday, and am having trouble talking myself into doing it today. I’ve been trying to do 2,000 words a day;...
by Katherine Villyard | Nov 4, 2006 | nanowrimo
NaNoWriMo proceeds apace. Thus far the story is coming out quick and sketchy, like a gesture drawing. It’s like my muse feels rushed and is telling the story as fast as she can, and I have to hurry to get down a bare skeleton of mostly dialog just to keep up. I...
by Katherine Villyard | Oct 8, 2006 | nanowrimo
I’m outlining like the guy with the chalk at a kool-aid party. I’m anxious about the NaNoWriMo thing and want to be prepared. I mean, really, really, hard-core serious prepared. Right now I’m doing the infamous snowflake that They [TM] tout on the...
by Katherine Villyard | Sep 26, 2006 | nanowrimo
I’m planning to do NaNoWriMo this year, and thus far I really think it’s going to help. I’m trying to outline extensively, and I tried to plug Lizardfic the novel into an outline template I found online and there were questions there I couldn’t...