Archive for the ‘Camp Nano’ Category
NaNoWriMo
I know I bang on about NaNoWriMo and its summer offerings in Camp NaNo, but I’m going to do it again. Today is the N day and it seemed an appropriate time to bang this drum again. I’m sure you know all about the National Novel Writing Month. You have to write 50,000 words in […]
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Tags: A to Z Challenge, CAMP NANO, National Novel Writing Month, Natural History Museum, photography, Reading, Writer Resources, Writing
Camp NaNo, starting soon
No, I’m not taking part in the A to Z Blogging Challenge AND Camp NaNo in the same month. I’m MAD, but not stupid. No, I’m not stupid. My first experience of NaNoWriMo in any of its forms happened in the August edition of Camp NaNo last year. I was a Happy Camper when I […]
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Tags: CAMP NANO, National Novel Writing Month, Writers Resources, Writing
One year on
Last month I completed my first full year of Twittering and blogging. Celebration time! My writing group are to blame as they suggested I started a blog and joined twitter and facebook and any other social networking site I could think to join. Last September, I took the plunge and signed up to Twitter and […]
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Tags: Blog, Goodreads, Kindle, Online Communities, Social Networking, Twitter, WordPress, Writer, Writing
First Draft complete!
I’ve written a book! The first draft of A Scream in the Woods is complete. I only started it on the first of August, so in 52 days I’ve managed to write a 74k first draft. I cannot believe that I’ve actually done it. Thank you Camp NaNo for giving me the incentive to write […]
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Tags: CAMP NANO, Crime fiction, Fiction, National Novel Writing Month, Scrivener, Writing
A Scream In The Woods
Like the Olympics, Camp NaNo seems like a lifetime ago already. I decided against doing an end of month update for August as I’d done so many progress reports during my camping experience. At the end of August I’d written 52k words towards my WIP and I was completely knackered. The end of the month […]
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Tags: CAMP NANO, Crime fiction, Olympic Games, Writers Resources, Writing
And, the winner is …
I made it through the camping experience and have burst through the 50,000 words barrier. I have a badge to prove it. Yeeeeehah. The truth is it doesn’t feel like I’ve won anything yet. Sure, I’ve written over 50k words in one month, but the novel isn’t finished yet. To be honest, I can’t quite […]
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Tags: CAMP NANO, Olympic Games, Word count, Writers Resources, Writing
Day 20 at the campsite
Who would have thought that I would still be camping 20 days in? Still having a blast and most importantly for me, still writing every day. This is the first time I have written for 20 consecutive days. I enjoyed writing whilst watching the Olympics and cheering on #TeamGB and Mo Farah, Jess Ennis and […]
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Tags: CAMP NANO, Mo Farah, National Novel Writing Month, Writers Resources, Writing
Camp NaNo: 10 Days in
We are more than a third of the way through the month already. Time flies when you’re doing this camping lark. The second five days have gone well. A Scream in the Woods is progressing as well as I could have hoped for and I’m on track to hit more than 50k by the end […]
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Tags: CAMP NANO, Free writing, National Novel Writing Month, Pantser, Writers Resources, Writing, Writing and Editing
When I arrived at the NaNo style camp site I declared to the world that I am a Planner not a Pantser. It is true. I plan and without putting in that work before I start a project, I wouldn’t be able to write anything. A good few years ago, I read “On Writing” by […]
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Tags: Creative writing, Pantser, Scrivener, Stephen King, Writers Resources, Writing
Camp NaNo: 5 Days gone
Five days of Camp NaNoing and I’m having a blast! Before the start my nerves were jangling over whether I could immerse myself into writing another novel. As my other WIP has been at the forefront of my (writing) thinking for so many years, part of me wondered whether I could do this at all. […]
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Tags: CAMP NANO, London 2012, National Novel Writing Month, Olympics, WIP, Writing
