Isn’t Wikipedia great!

Once again I’m pushed for time to think of something original to write, so, as ever, I’ve filched ideas from Jo!
On my birthday, the following things happened at various points in history:
Events:

1579 – Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New [...]

Surely this is the longest November on record?

No, I really mean it! In some ways it feels like three days since I started writing my NaNovel, but in other ways I could quite honestly believe that it has now been November for about three years.
Only four days left to the end of the month, and I’m practically counting down the minutes until [...]

Progress

I have been pressing on with my NaNovel since last Wednesday (I had two days holiday after I reached fifty thousand words last Sunday) and now I’m squeezing in a two minute break to write today’s blog entry.
Despite the home made gloves, my poor fingers have been suffering whilst I’ve been typing due to the lack [...]

I’m there!

I’ve finished! I have a brand new ‘winner’ icon on the side of the page, over there (pointing right) which means that all the touching wood and avoiding ladders and black cats for the last couple of weeks has worked, and I am now (almost) officially a NaNoWriMo winner! I’ve just got to keep the [...]

The end is nigh!

…but not in an apocalyptic way! I am at 48537 words, and therefore have only 1463 words left to compose in my NaNovel before I reach my 50000 words target! Woohoo! When I got off to such an unexpectedly strong start, people joked that I would finish by the end of this week, but I [...]

Being a little previous

Darn it! Why doesn’t someone stop me blabbering on and tempting fate! There I was yesterday thinking that everything was tickety-boo, couldn’t stop writing, the words were practically typing themselves, and then what happens? Life, that’s what. Everything is now conspiring against me to try to stop me finishing this. It really would be Sod’s [...]

Something that I need to confront with you…

/stands up
Hi! I’m Jennie and I have a newly discovered problem. I am a write-oholic!
Levity aside, this is serious! I’m up to 25000 words now in my NaNovel, and I’m completely and utterly obsessed. I can’t concentrate on anything else. Most of my time I’m thinking about where my main character will go next, or snippets [...]

Day one trauma – not a good omen!

It has officially begun then. The first day is over, hopefully everyone who is writing has penned that elusive first sentence and the games can now begin.
I was so optimistic by lunchtime yesterday. I’d already written three thousand words and was really looking forward to my hour in the evening before my boys went to bed [...]

And so it begins!

The first day of NaNo. Did I stay awake and write through half the night? No. I couldn’t keep my eyes open past about 11pm, and so went to bed. Did I get up ridiculously early and type for three hours before anyone else got up? No. As usual, I had to be dragged from [...]