Global Spin

Finished chapter 7 today, which is halfway through my newly-revised 14 chapters.  Halfway through the word count, too.  That’s a handy thing, because the month is halfway gone as well. It’s really starting to feel like I’m over the hump; the characters are moving themselves along, I’m writing over 2000 words in a sitting (which [...]

Posted by Chris in Books, NaNoWriMo, Writing on November 15th, 2006 | 1 Comment »

Not much to report today.  Writing is proceeding apace, and I’ve just completed Chapter 6.  I added a bit of it to my WriMo profile excerpt thingy, because it didn’t seem completely stinky.  Both that and my word count from the past two days were surprising, because I managed to clock myself on the head [...]

Posted by Chris in Books, NaNoWriMo, Writing on November 13th, 2006 | 4 Comments »

If you’re paying close attention, you might have noticed that up until today I was blogging my NaNoWriMo progress once every two days. That was no coincidence; my evil plan had me finishing a chapter every second day, with 15 chapters in all. That worked until yesterday, a day when my productivity crashed so hard [...]

Posted by Chris in Books, NaNoWriMo, Writing on November 12th, 2006 | 3 Comments »

It’s late and I’m tired, but I just wanted to let you know that I posted an excerpt over on my WriMo author page. It’s probably horrid, but I was particularly proud of it just after having written it, which was about five minutes ago. …and that’s the real problem with the excerpt thing. I’m [...]

Posted by Chris in Books, NaNoWriMo, Writing on November 8th, 2006 | 1 Comment »

I just finished Chapter 3, and my main characters have finally had a chance to catch their breath.  The space monkeys are no longer chasing them, so they got to introduce themselves a bit and get through some exposition.  Writing that was pretty easy, I just chugged along filling their mouths with dialogue. And if [...]

Posted by Chris in Books, NaNoWriMo, Writing on November 6th, 2006 | 2 Comments »