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Having not really written for two weeks I am behind. I should be on 45,000 words, but I’m on just less than 35,000. I’ve done half a novel but have used up over half the time. Lots of things can stop you writing I’ve found. In the War of Art Steven Pressfield talks about “resistance”Continue reading “100 Days to Write a Novel Week Nine”

There was no week seven. I flitted across the border and took it with me. In Glasgow, I met with another writer. We spoke, and ate a vegan meal, then watched random music in a basement. Drummer with mouthgag, a band describing themselves as being like ‘a sad wank in a bath’ and the headlinersContinue reading “100 Days to Write a Novel Week Eight”

And so comes the inevitable crash. I’ve only written 1500 words this week. I’ve been stymied for a variety of reasons – none of which should have been insurmountable. As Mumford & Sons said – “If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy, I could have won” So that should mean lots ofContinue reading “100 Days to Write a Novel: Week Six”

The Certainty of Dust is at almost 30,000 words and this is the pause point. At 30k with both previous novels, it reached the point where forward momentum versus how it matches the outline needed testing at this point. And despite doing better planning, or so I thought, I’ve hit that point now too. IContinue reading “100 Days to Write a Novel: Week Five”

The Certainty of Dust is now just under 24,000 words. I’m still ahead (basically due to the boost during week one). Although behind on the week – which means more writing over the weekend. Essentially it’s now novella length and half novel-length (if we accept NanoWriMo’s definition of a novel is 50K) As I tweetedContinue reading “100 Days to Write a Novel: Week Four”

Another 4,000 odd words added, and, as usual, plans for the weekend – so I might not catch up to the target – but I hope to add some words in my lunch hour… Not quite at the panic, must work all hours stage, but if this keeps up I think it’s likely that inContinue reading “100 Days to Write a Novel: Week Three”

4,300 words this week so far. obviously, I won’t be taking the whole weekend off this time – I need to do at least 1 more writing session to bring it up to the target 5k. At this stage, with the words flowing, I’m tempted to do a couple of sessions and try to getContinue reading “100 Days to write a novel: Week Two”

OK slightly less than a week really. But I did say I’d blog on Fridays… 5 days in and the wordcount is a little over 10,000 words. That sounds a lot but it’s worth pointing out that the beginning of the novel is the most well worked out part – with clear notes and evenContinue reading “100 days to write a novel: Week 1”

OK this is it people. This is me seeking to be held responsible and to stop procrastinating. I’m going to do a 100 day novel writing plan. Why 100 days? Well a good draft can be written in 3 months and an extra few days for contingencies for rounding it up… I’m going to startContinue reading “100 days to write a novel?”

First of all – if you are a writer and you’re not following Gareth on Twitter get on over there right now and tick that follow box. Gareth is very generous with his time on Twitter and often does AMA’s and opens his feed to help writers. I’ll wait… As I posted here I’m kinda addictedContinue reading “Review: About Writing by Gareth L Powell”