Category: Challenges

NaNoWriMo Day 19

An update on NaNoWriMo and a great source on some recent research on Vikings!

NaNoWriMo Day 15

An update on my NaNoWriMo progress and other writing progress, plus some great resources on Imposter Syndrome. And a bit of digital art.

NaNoWriMo Day 7

It is NaNo November and everywhere people are writing novels. I’m working on mine as well, but differently than in the past. I have less intensity, less sense of wanting to gnaw my own arm off to get this done than in the past. I’ve rediscovered the joy of writing by hand. And rediscovered the…

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NaNoWriMo Day Three

There isn’t much to say today on NaNoWriMo Day 3. I didn’t get any words down for NaNo. However, I finished the graphics and the last minute text changes to our large game supplement and sent it in to the publisher. Yay! Also, today is the last day you can support WMG’s Holiday Kickstarter, which…

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NaNoWriMo Day 2

I did a lot of prep work for NaNo yesterday and finished other work. I started on my NaNoNovel and the Relationships course today. Our book-sized game supplement is now completely edited and formatted and ready to send to the editor. I still  have four graphics that need to be revised and one that needs…

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NaNoWriMo Day 1

Bonjour! Today is the day after Halloween, which was quite an experience here in my new neighborhood. So many trick or treaters!  Today is also the start of NaNoWriMo. My goal is to write 50,000 words of a novel in the month of November. At the same time, my Relationships course with Dean starts tomorrow….

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Writing Challenges

I do not yet have a writing challenge for 2021. I have my goals, but no game to go with them. Last year I completed the short story a week and then failed the novel challenge. I also completed 2020’s challenge to send a story to the Writers of the Future contest every quarter. (The…

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