I hadn’t written more than 700 words the two previous days, but as Singapore is on a holiday today, I tried to catch up. I did pretty well, I think:
NaNoWriMo 2007words: 20,299 / 50,000 (41%)
That’s almost half of the goal by the eighth day, which isn’t bad at all (this might still grow within the […]

So today I think I overreached myself a bit; my Excel report card told me I would finish by November 13 if I kept this speed up. That’s because I’m now at:
NaNoWriMo 2007words: 10,466 / 50,000 (21%)
I stopped myself from writing more this afternoon mostly because I don’t want to suddenly inexplicably burn out, and […]

The second day of NanoWriMo has come and gone. I’m off to retire, but I wanted to write a bit before I did. I’m going along rather splendidly in terms of the word count goal. I stopped as I hit some faintly problematic stuff in memoir-writing: that is, research into the exact sequence of events […]

So NaNoWriMo has officially started. Well, it’s technically the second day of NaNo for me, as it’s 12:05 AM at this very moment. I started a bit after midnight last night, as I couldn’t sleep, and wrote for an hour. Not bad for the first session:
NaNoWriMo 2007words: 919 / 50,000 (2%)
Sadly, I haven’t written more […]

It’s that time of the year again — it’s National Novel Writing Month, otherwise known as NaNoWriMo. If you don’t know what it is… where are you been, seriously?
It’s also that time of the month where I always set myself up to fail, apparently. I’ve joined almost every year, but after writing about a few […]

Yes, real life happened, plus some other things mixed in between. Hence, no, I did not finish NanoWriMo (for the umpteenth time… that’s like my standard spiel for the end of November!) and I feel somewhat sad for this, although that sadness is something closer to a “token” sort of sadness — like, I didn’t […]

I’m convinced real life is the worst enemy of writing. ;)
Alright, of course I’m kidding, but I had not been able to get much writing done at all! I don’t think I should keep posting my weekend plans for writing my Nano novel — I pretty much failed and was only able to write a […]

Yes, it’s finally the weekend. I will write this weekend, I will see to it that I will write! My goal for this weekend is to reach 18,000 words. I should have reached 20,000 words by Sunday (according to my NaNo calendar!) but I will try to be realistic — 12,000 words in two days […]

I was able to write a bit yesterday, and although I’m still quite behind, I feel a bit of optimism, still. I’m now at 5,716 words, and I only had to stop writing yesterday not because I was all out of words or anything but because of external factors like I need to go, etc. […]

I haven’t written more than once since my last post, and it was a very short session which brought my total to a paltry 4,404.
nanowrimo 2006words: 4,404 / 50,000 (9%)
I am lagging behind, quite obviously, and need around 12,000 words to catch up. Meeep. I have realized two things: 1) the Internet is an evil, […]