Monthly Archives: November 2012

NaNoFeed: bite-sized pieces, or how to eat an elephant

I make a custom of date-stamping all of my draft writing with the start time and end time. In the wake of NaNo last year, I transferred those dates to a spreadsheet and to my Google calendar. What I learned … Continue reading

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NaNoFeed: not an A-plus student

(Dateline: Sunday 4 November; posted now, to avoid colliding with Six Sentence Sunday.) So now, at a write-in, I’m banging out prose, after consulting sources. Every NaNo novel is different, and I’m realizing that this one is being written very … Continue reading

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NaNoFeed: by popular request, the large version of the NaNoBanner (click to view at full size)

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Six Sentence Sunday, 4 November 2012 (Cleopatra’s Ironclads)

The censorious didn’t care for the rites of the god of wine, but he was the protector of the whole dynasty: the god of frenzy and change, the deity of chance. No army moved without proper rations of wine and … Continue reading

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NaNoFeed: my novel banner

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NaNoFeed: The ship is launched!

Woke up later than I’d originally planned, so now at least I’ve put off a bit the bug that’s going around. It’s mid-afternoon and I’ve scored 1941 words according to Scrivener’s word-count. I’ve posted an excerpt here and I’m already … Continue reading

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