Back again :)

So far, 384 words today, about Cirellio and Cauinn travelling to a small town called Javo.  They had a discussion where Cauinn reveals a bit about her past.

Just to let you know, I do plan to do an update post showing where everybody stands in the NPI on day 5 (and pretty much every five days).

So anyway, I went to hear Steve Davenport yesterday. It wasn’t quite what I expected.

He made it clear to us he’s a dyed-in-the-wool beat poet. 90% of the time, he recited his poetry. Some were 100 lines.

Apparently, he’s also a fiction writer, but he didn’t talk about that—at all.  Read the rest of this entry »

WC: 329.

Today I got stuck on 117 words for a while and had trouble pushing ahead.

But eventually I pulled through. I didn’t plan it to be exactly 2 more words than yesterday. 

;)

Well, that wasn’t so bad.

WC: 327 words. Maybe I’ll add more later today ^_^.

Since I don’t actually have better judgment to judge against, I put up a sample chapter. Yes, the actual first-draft prologue of Five Rings is online and available to you right now, ready for perus-ation and scrutinization.

What a great way to kick-off the Novel-Push Initiative, right? Get some of my work out there for curious eyes to see…

I chose to put up the prologue because—as is the very nature of prologues—it’s spoiler-free.

Sure, by sharing my writing, you guys’ll likely find out that I’m in way over my head and you’re all wasting your time here and I’m a total hack. But I figure you’d have found out eventually anyway…. Read the rest of this entry »

The Novel Push Initiative:

NPI is a mere four days away.

Packsister and I are going to push our novels’ word counts forward from March 1st through March 31st.

The goal is to write at least 250 words (or half a page) per day. If we miss reporting our progress via our blogs even a single day, we’re knocked out of the event.

If I can’t handle this, I guess I have no business entering NaNoWriMo.

So this is a test for me.

And I’m excited.

And nervous.

The Writing Contest: Read the rest of this entry »