Tag Archives: NaNoWriMo

On the First Day of NaNoWriMo, My True Love Gave to Me…

Posted on November 5, 2013 by AmyBeth Inverness

It’s the first week of NaNoWriMo and I’m OK. Just OK. Not great, not even comfortable, but OK. At the dawn of day 5, my word count is a nice even 7k. I was above the line until yesterday, then … Continue reading →

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Icky-Poo

Posted on October 30, 2013 by AmyBeth Inverness

The only upside I can fathom to being sick is that I hope to get over it BEFORE NaNoWriMo. I’ve given up on one story I wanted to finish this month. The deadline’s just a couple days away, and even … Continue reading →

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Planning

Posted on October 28, 2013 by AmyBeth Inverness

How do you strike a balance between preparing and doing? One good thing about NaNoWriMo is that it gives the writer a defined time when they need to be writing. No longer plotting. No longer outlining. No longer cruising the … Continue reading →

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This Is It!

Posted on October 26, 2013 by AmyBeth Inverness

During my first year of NaNoWriMo, I didn’t have a blog yet. My second year, I did all kinds of preparation, including finishing interviews and SciFi Q of the Day posts in advance. (By the way, I succeeded both those … Continue reading →

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This, That, and a Million Other Things

Posted on October 23, 2013 by AmyBeth Inverness

Goals! I haz them. I’m barely keeping up, but I’ll make it. This round my goals are NaNo-centric. October is for NaNo prep, and there’s only one week left. I’m not sure I’m going to get the submissions finished that … Continue reading →

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ROWing to NaNoWriMo

Posted on October 16, 2013 by AmyBeth Inverness

My ROW80 goals for this round are to prepare for NaNoWriMo in October, win NaNoWriMo in November, then recover from NaNoWriMo in December. Last year I failed NaNoWriMo. Part of this was because I had a submission deadline for something else I wanted to work on … Continue reading →

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Advance Warning of Chaos

Posted on October 9, 2013 by AmyBeth Inverness

Life would be so much easier if I could get advance warning of chaos. If I could just plan for it… …well, it would be less chaotic. Now for my ROW80 Goals post! The last round (AKA the NaNo round) … Continue reading →

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Interview with Taylor Lunsford

Posted on August 15, 2013 by AmyBeth Inverness

Taylor is a hopeless romantic who spends her days working for a great company and her nights/ weekends doing the job of her heart. A devout follower of the Jane Austen school of thought, she’ll put her characters through a … Continue reading →

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Interview With Victoria Kirichok-Pratt

Posted on December 6, 2012 by AmyBeth Inverness

  My name is Victoria. I am the mother of very imaginative and active eight and ten-year-old boys, the wife of a very patient man, a soccer mom, a furniture sales person, a writer, a performance junkie, a drama instructor, a … Continue reading →

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Not Good Enough

Posted on November 21, 2012 by AmyBeth Inverness

Last year during NaNoWriMo I was unexpectedly called out of state for two weeks. Yet, I still remained very close to the goal line in my daily word count. Looking back, part of that might be because I was called … Continue reading →

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