NaNoWriMo Day 11

Word Goal: 18,337/50,000 Actual word count: 20,795 What happened today: It was Veteran’s Day here in the US.  My father, my grandfather, and my husband’s grandfather have all served in the armed forces at some… Continue reading →

NaNoWriMo Day 10

Word Goal: 16,670/50,000 Actual word count: 20,020 What happened today: I decided to not worry about writing, and just took care of things around the house that I needed to.  The new blog theme wasn’t… Continue reading →

NaNoWriMo Day 9

Word Goal: 15,003/50,000 Actual word count: 18,687 What happened today: It was a crazy, long, day.  I wrote a little more than 200 words.  I think half of those were ‘sleep typed’. 100 (103) Word… Continue reading →

NaNoWriMo Day 8

Word Goal: 13,336/50,000 Actual word count: 18,468 What happened today: I hit the week-two slump. I’ve never hit it before.  Week two has always been easy for me, but this year is different for some… Continue reading →

NaNoWriMo Day 7

Personal Word Goal:  23,338/100,000 Minimum Word Goal: 11,669/50,000 Actual word count: 18,056 What happened today: Second write-in!  We had 13 people show up for this one, our biggest Wendy’s write-in to date since our previous… Continue reading →

NaNoWriMo Day 6

When I finished writing last night, it was after midnight and I had to go to sleep.  But I’m thinking it might just be easier on myself to simply post the day after… Continue reading →

NaNoWriMo Day 5

Personal Word Goal:  15,670/100,000 Minimum Word Goal: 8,335/50,000 Actual word count: 11,247 What happened today: We had a 5.6 earthquake. Really. And I hit 11k.  I’m slowly catching up! 100 Word Excerpt: (or today, 99… Continue reading →

NaNoWriMo Day 4

Personal Word Goal:  13,336/100,000 Minimum Word Goal: 6,668/50,000 Actual word count: 8,050 What happened today: Not as much writing time, again, because I had to re-do the filing system at church >_<. 100 Word Excerpt:… Continue reading →

NaNoWriMo Day 3

Personal Word Goal:  10,002/100,000 Minimum Word Goal: 5,001/50,000 Actual word count: 5,668 What happened today: My writing time was cut short today because I had pumpkin that had to be cooked down.  Incidentally, a large… Continue reading →

NaNoWriMo Day 2

So, this morning, instead of writing, I decided to do Wordle’s for each day’s writing.  So, I’ll be adding a Wordle to the Day 1 post, if you want to go back and… Continue reading →

NaNoWriMo Day 1

So, for some reason, I had the idea to do a blog post every day for NaNoWriMo.  Not sure why, other than I want to document this experience somehow. So each day, I’m… Continue reading →

My NaNoWriMo Tools

Okay, still working on character charts, so I don’t have my next ‘Meet _____’ post ready yet, it will hopefully be up sometime tomorrow :). In the meantime, I’ve been bouncing ideas and… Continue reading →

Shinies!

A lot has happened this week, both in the blogging world, and in real life.  I won’t go into the real life stuff, I’m still kind of reeling from today, and nothing is… Continue reading →

How I Use Index Cards to Outline, Pt 2

This post now available here: http://rebekahloper.wordpress.com/2013/08/04/how-i-use-index-cards-to-outline-pt-2/

How I Use Index Cards to Outline, Pt 1

This post now available here: http://rebekahloper.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/how-i-use-index-cards-to-outline-pt-1/

The First Annual All Hallow’s Eve contest

Wow, yesterday ended up being awesome!  Thanks to many wonderful people (especially those from the Writers Campaign and the WordPress Forums), I hit 3000 views yesterday!  I decided on Thursday that I wanted… Continue reading →

Do you create, or do you listen?

Lissa(Mrs. C) and I had a conversation a while back . . . (warning: you are about to have a glimpse into the minds of two writers who may or may not be… Continue reading →

My Writing Trivia – Prize: $10 Amazon.com Gift Card

It’s test time!  Okay, not really . .  but I couldn’t resist!  Once again, just a reminder that you must be a subscriber to my blog to be eligible to win the gift… Continue reading →

My Writing: Gyti

This novel is my baby.  I first came up with the idea during my Lord of the Rings Fanatics Plaza days, and I was making it epic.  I even created languages, and have… Continue reading →

Entering Contests: Why is it so nerve-wracking?

If anyone of you know me on facebook, or follow me on twitter, or simply read the twitter feed in the sidebar, you know that I have been writing and editing like crazy… Continue reading →

My Writing: Father Time

I don’t remember the initial idea that I had for what I’m currently calling my ‘Father Time’ story, only that I did have it!  It was not a story that started with an… Continue reading →