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#FirstDraft60 Day 34: Friday Is S.W.A.T. Day #amwriting #nanowrimo

It’s Friday! It’s also the first Friday of the writing portion of our sixty-day challenge. Even though we’ll be (hopefully) sharing our progress on a daily basis, on Fridays I want to know about your full writing week. What were your greatest successes during the week? What was your favorite line/bit that you wrote? What […]

#FirstDraft60 Day 33: THORsday Thursday! #amwriting #1k1hr #nanowrimo2016

How is your challenge going after the second day of writing? Have you hit a stumbling block already (I did—I missed yesterday’s goal by 844 words). Well, that’s okay. Remember,the important thing is that we pick right back up today and face today’s goals (and challenges) head on, as if yesterday’s stumble never happened. On […]

#FirstDraft60 Day 32: Motivation for the Marathon #amwriting #nanowrimo

I know you probably don’t need a motivational speech or pep talk on the second day of writing. I’m sure you’re still gung-ho and raring to go. Typically, Mondays will be our day for sharing fun, motivational posts and memes (so be saving them as you come across them during the month); and Wednesdays will […]

#FirstDraft60 Day 31: TODAY WE WRITE! (Timer Tuesday) #amwriting #nanowrimo #1k1h

Have you already started? Are you geared up and champing at the bit, waiting for your lunch break or for the end of the work day in order to get started writing? Today is our first writing day of the challenge. Please check in when you can with your goal of what you intend to […]

#FirstDraft60 Day 30: TOMORROW WE WRITE! #amwriting #nanoprep #nanowrimo

We’ve gone through twenty-nine days of prep work in order to get us, hopefully, to the point at which we’re more prepared to sit down and start writing a story than we’ve ever been in our lives. But if you’re anything like me . . . you’ve probably fallen a bit behind on the planning. […]

#FirstDraft60 Day 29: Sunday Reflections–Your Physical & Mental Writing Spaces #amwriting #nanoprep

On Sundays, we take a moment to step back and think about our writing from a wider view. Below the schedule for the upcoming week are questions to help you reflect on what you’ve done up to this point—feel free to answer them here with as much or little detail as you’d like; or answer […]

#FirstDraft60 Day 28: Saturday Catch-Up & Review Day #amwriting #nanoprep #nanowrimo

It’s the final weekend before we begin the writing portion of our sixty days . . . and I accidentally scheduled this post to post at 7 PM instead of 7 AM. Hopefully, you forged on without me. We didn’t have quite as many “big” assignments this week, so hopefully you had a chance to […]

#FirstDraft60 Day 21: Saturday Catch-Up & Review Day #amwriting #nanoprep #nanowrimo

It’s the final weekend before we begin the writing portion of our sixty days . . . and I accidentally scheduled this post to post at 7 PM instead of 7 AM. Hopefully, you forged on without me. We didn’t have quite as many “big” assignments this week, so hopefully you had a chance to […]

#FirstDraft60 Day 27: Using #1k1hr Sprints for Marathon Writing #amwriting #nanoprep #nanowrimo

Next Tuesday, we begin the marathon thirty-day writing portion of this sixty-day challenge. Hopefully you already set your total word-count goal and broke that down into digestible daily goals. (If you haven’t, now would be a good time.) We’ve already discussed the difference between draft writing and regular writing—focusing on draft writing for this challenge […]

#FirstDraft60 Day 26: Writing Your Story Scene by Scene #amwriting #nanoprep #nanowrimo

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. How do you write a novel? One scene at a time. Even for those of us who’ve been doing this for quite some time, it’s tempting when we approach our writing time to think: I’m going to write my novel. But just like with […]