Week 4 of #CampNaNoWriMo

You may be asking yourself – why does this blog have a Week 2 update and a Week 4 update, but no Week 3 update? Truth be told, I didn’t write a Camp NaNo update last week because, well, I didn’t write anything last week. I met my goal after Week 2, and took Week […]

Week 2 of #CampNaNoWriMo

In a turn of events that was not expected this time last month, I have met my page/poem goal for Camp NaNoWriMo. That’s 60 new poems to add to the verse novel manuscript. But it’s not done yet. This second week, I had a revelation. I recognized something was missing in the initial draft – […]

Week 1 of #CampNaNoWriMo

The first week of Camp NaNoWriMo has come and gone, and I am confident in the progress I’ve made. My Camp project is finishing the verse novel I started earlier this year. I set my goal at 60 pages, representing 60 poems. By the end of the week I had written 42 poems/pages. It helped […]

Back for Camp NaNoWriMo!

Camp NaNoWriMo is becoming more poet-friendly every year. When I first started participating back in 2012, goals were based on word count. When I listed my project on my camper’s site this year, I noticed that a variety of ways were included in the project categorization. I’m finally able to list my project as “Poetry” […]

12 and a Half Days Left of #CampNaNoWriMo

…And I haven’t written a recreational word in quite a few days. It’s not that I’m not thinking of writing; rather, I have been busy with so much else. Specifically, I’ve been getting over a cold, working exercise into my schedule, catching up on some devotional reading, and working on my graduate class. I have […]

#CampNaNoWriMo, National Poetry Month, & Hiatus Apology

Hello readers! It is now April 1st, the most untrustworthy day of the year. But trust me when I say that I wholeheartedly apologize for the lack of content in the past few months. My schedule has been in flux, and my blog (and writing!) fell to the wayside. That is why my #NaHaiWriMo posts […]

Book Review: No Plot? No Problem! By Chris Baty

Rating: Four out of five stars It is no mystery that I am obsessed with National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and its summer counterpart, Camp NaNoWriMo. After having discovered Camp NaNoWriMo in early summer 2012, I have become entangled in the world of writing a project in a month.  I think this project is a […]

Camp NaNoWriMo July 2015

This Camp NaNoWriMo session was so different from the others, but I learned so much, most notably how to not confine myself. Title: Scriptica (continued), Cybarchae, Third Project, and a 900-word blog post Genre: Fantasy and Science Fiction Description: Continuing to write my NaNoWriMo 2014 novel, started a novella, and started a poem with the intent […]

My 2014 NaNoWriMo Novel

…is complete! The first draft of my first novel is officially in one piece. It’s a mess, but at least it’s better than the state it was in before (4 Word documents, a handwritten chapter, and the climax still unwritten). I won the November 2014 session with over 50,000 words, but the climax still needed […]

A Challenge on a Challenge

It’s the fourth week of Camp NaNoWriMo, and I am yet unsure of my word count because I have been writing in longhand. I ditched my initial project, recognizing its need for further outlining, world building, and thought before I can continue. I am almost done my NaNoWriMo 2014 novel (one scene left!), so that […]