Now available for download, in unlimited-edition format, new but not improved, Don’t point that sword at me unless you intend to use it. See the results of writing a story, over a period of 23 days, with no greater goal than reaching that 50k word count.
Checklist of accomplishments
Plot holes - YES
Misspellings - AMEN BRUTHA!
Massive Grammar [...]
Phew.
Ninja’s and plot bunnies bite my ass.
Caffeine and a great wife is all I needed.
I completed Script Frenzy with more than half of the contest time remaining. I’m only slightly ahead of target with 16,828 words for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).Participating in NaNoWriMo reminds me of my long ago Kung Fu training. If my old Sifu was running it, my conversations with him would sound something like this.
Me: [...]
November 4th and the 4th day of National Novel Writing Month. After a rough start, we’ve kept on and caught up with where we should be in my word count for this contest. I say we because I had the first contributor, besides me, on my nanowiki. Yay! She signs her name as “Ellen W-T,” [...]
In 1999, Chris Baty and about 20 others experimented with writing an entire novel in the month of November. The experiment was a success, not in terms of number of novels published, but in the positive experience of those who participated. Chris stuck with it and has restarted his experiment each year since, and each [...]