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Sep 30, 20236 min read

An Awesome Tool to Help You Prep, Plot, and Plan for NaNoWriMo (or ANY novel writing project!)

Right now as I'm writing this, it's the last day of September 2023... which means it's about to be Preptober! For those who aren't as...

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Oct 25, 20172 min read

Should You NaNoWriMo?

Here are some things to consider before committing to the crunch of 50,000 words in November.

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Oct 25, 20173 min read

How to Succeed at NaNoWriMo

a brief bullet-point list of some of the things I learned from my frenzied first-time NaNoWriMo experience...

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Jan 10, 20173 min read

I Am the Tortoise…

I am trying to walk in my gift, to use the talents I was given, to go for my dreams and to do some good in the process.

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Dec 1, 20161 min read

I Finished NaNoWriMo!

Author's note as of 9-2-20: This mess of a novel I mentioned in this post went on to become The Edge of Nothing, the first book in The...

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Nov 28, 20166 min read

What I Learned from NaNoWriMo

2016 was my first attempt at NaNoWriMo. For the first few days, it rocked! But then, I hit a snag: I hadn’t had time to outline very much b

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