Tag: project update
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The Thaw: Project Update
I was pretty pleased to recently finally break my 100,000 word target for the first draft of the post-apocalyptic novel, The Thaw, that I have been writing since last July. It was a big moment that I captured in a somewhat successful Facebook livestream. Considering my initial plan was 60,000 and then 70,000 words I’m…
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On Novel-writing: Finally breaking into The Thaw
In researching this post, I realised by happy accident it was a year ago that I announced my two big projects that I was working on: The Thaw and Doors. I’m pretty pleased to say, a year on, that both of these projects have progressed a lot, but today I want to focus on The…
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Looking Back On NaNoWriMo
This time five years ago I was halfway through my inaugural attempt at NaNoWriMo, and halfway through writing my first ever novel-length writing project. It was the culmination of a few weeks of late-night planning of something great, and ultimately what I would say is the first big “event” that signposted my taking “this writing…