To all the newcomers, welcome to NPI!

To the veterans, welcome back!

Looks like we have about 12 participants so far (and counting).

This is a great opportunity to check out everyone’s wonderful writing blogs (and be sure to follow them on Twitter, too).

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1. Merrilee Faber — 250 words per day.

blog: Not Enough Words

twitter: http://twitter.com/MerrileeFaber

2. Cassie — 10 minutes a day.

blog: J.C. Hart

twitter: http://twitter.com/JCHart

3. KLCtheBookWorm — 250 words per day.

blog: Discipline Under Fire

4. Angie B. — 250 words per day.

blog: Lost in L.A.

5. Najela — 250 words per day.

blog: One Big Adventure

6. J.C. Martin — 500 words per day.

blog: The Fighter Writer

twitter: http://twitter.com/JCMartin_author

7. packsister — 1/3rd a page a day.

blog: The Awake Ones

8. Ryan G. Sanders — 250 words per day.

blog: Ryan G. Sanders

twitter: http://twitter.com/RG_Sanders

9. Karen JM — 250 words per day.

blog: Catherine Mede Writes

10. A. M. Harte — 200 words per day.

blog: A.M. Harte

twitter: http://twitter.com/am_harte

11. Laura — 250 words per day.

blog: Ink: In All Forms

twitter: http://twitter.com/Laura_FitzG

12. Nick Enlowe — 30 minutes a day.

twitter: http://twitter.com/NickEnlowe

13. Portia — 500 words per day.

blog: elle écrit

14. Julie– 250 words per day.

blog: j-flamingo reflections

twitter: http://twitter.com/jflamingo2

15. Emma Newman — 1,000 words per day.

blog: Post-Apocalyptic Publishing

16. Kerryn — 100 words per day.

blog: No Excuses. Just Write.

twitter: http://twitter.com/kerrynangell

17. Camilla — 100 words per day.

twitter: http://twitter.com/camillabrokking

18. cbrett60 — 250 words per day.

twitter: http://twitter.com/cbrett60

19. Aliza Mann — 250 words per day.

blog: http://paraplayground.blogspot.com/

twitter: http://twitter.com/AlizaMannAuthor

20. Anna Caro — 250 words per day.

blog: Anna Caro

twitter: http://twitter.com/anna_caro_nz

21. NewToWritingGirl — 250 words per day.

blog: http://newtowritinggirl.wordpress.com

twitter: http://twitter.com/new2writinggirl

22. Tessa Conte — 250 words per day.

blog: http://tessasblurb.blogspot.com/

twitter: http://twitter.com/tessasblurb

23. Douglas Wynne — 250 words per day.

blog: Monsters and Miracles

twitter: http://twitter.com/Doug_Wynne

24. Cindy Marie Jenkins — 250 words per day.

blog: Cindy Marie Jenkins — Storyteller

twitter: http://twitter.com/TENscribeshop

25. Lisa — 250 words per day.

blog: One Madwoman’s One Million Words

26. Debbie Curan — 250 words per day.

blog: words ‘n’ whimsy

27. Cinette — 250 words per day.

blog: Musings of a Writer-in-Progress

twitter: http://twitter.com/CinetteS

28. Kakapo — 250 words per day.

twitter: http://twitter.com/kakapo1

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If I missed you or one of your websites, be sure to let me know.
This is not a final list. Registration is still open.

Now’s the time to be thinking about making adjustments to your daily goals. Would 200 words be more manageable? Is 250 words not challenging enough? Want to set your goal to something less tangible than a specific number of words?

It’s all up to you….

T-minus three days ;)

I’ve been tagged! It’s been awhile….

Merilee of Not Enough Words was the tagger, and the subject seems timely and appropriate, don’t you think?

1. If you could have any superpower, what would you have? Why?

The power of ‘Save States’.

This is how it works: Read the rest of this entry »

WHAT IS NPI?

NPI stands for ‘Novel Push Initiative’. The goal is to write 250 words per day for a month.

This is a great way to help you write through manuscripts you’ve been struggling with, or it can help you get used to writing every day. The reasons for joining are many, but participating always results in adding more words to your manuscripts, letting you get that much closer to the end of your stories.

And most importantly, we’re all in this together, so there’s lots of support and encouragement to go around.

October’s “Custom” NPI

• Event will run from October 1st-October 31st. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been quite a while since we’ve had an NPI. I wasn’t sure if there was any more interest in doing these, but Packsister recently ran her own personal NPI (where she kept going for 53 days straight!) and I’ve been asked to host another one.

This will be for the month of October, so it should be a good warm-up for the upcoming NaNoWriMo.

Participating in NPI means writing no less than 250 words per day. But I’d like to try something different. Custom NPI, where each one of you get to choose your own minimum word counts or page counts. Name your price, and I will personally enforce whatever you decide upon.

The default is 250 words per day. But if you’d like to hold yourself to a different standard, please let me know. 50 words per day? 1000? Half a page per day? Anything goes.

Oh, and this time, you start with 1 Day of Reprieve. If you write for 5 days in a row, you earn another Day of Reprieve. (I’m doing it this way because the old way caused some serious burnout.)

So, what do you folks think? If we need to tweak anything, now’s the time.

Now that I’ve completed the short story The Never-Ending Night, I feel a whole lot better about myself as a writer (even though it didn’t turn out to be quite as good as I had hoped…). Anyway, vowing not to post here until I was finished worked like a charm– It drove me to write more often than usual. Maybe I should start doing this with book chapters….

Anyway, I can either work on a new site layout, get another chapter done, or finish another short story. You Don’t Belong Here practically screams to be written; I loved the idea for it during the creativity workshop and I find myself thinking about it a lot (the story about the girl in a coma).

I was also thinking about doing a Con-lang post here. So here’s the to do list.

1. Write a Con-lang post.

2. Finish the current chapter I’m working on for Five Rings.

3. Finish the short story You Don’t Belong Here.

I’m really starting to enjoy this thing you guys call ‘finishing stuff’. Maybe I’ll even make a habit out of it….