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Tag: National Novel Writing Month
My changed view on NaNoWriMo
I’ve done NaNo since 2003 and tried Camp NaNoWriMo this past July. The first four times I ‘won’ the 50 K challenge, but didn’t achieve it ever since, and didn’t achieve the goal for Camp either. I didn’t even get halfway there. My Changed View What I’ve come to realize is that I’m now putting too […]
Pantsers vs. Plotters
With me starting at Camp NaNoWriMo on July 1st I thought that I should explain the difference between these two story methods, and what I do or don’t. “Pantsers” This is an expression, short for “writing by the seat of your pants”. A writer goes into a project with nothing planned and just writes what […]
NaNoWriMo 2013: How Did I Do?
As you can see above, it wasn’t a victory. Well, not for the competition, anyway. It’s still quite an accomplishment from zero words. I have a good outline. My characters are well-defined. I wrote daily but not with enough BIC (Butt in Chair) to make my daily word quota. Thus, I’m not far enough in […]
NaNoWriMo 2013: My First Post
I haven’t updated here for some time for several reasons. First was the Indiegogo campaign that I mentioned here. I asked many people that I know to get it funded. A few did, many didn’t. Some of those who didn’t seem a bit miffed. I’m hoping that some if not most of them will talk […]
Differing Views
Ultimately not, but from different approaches: Write On: Can We Teach Writing? The Best Writing Advice You’ll Ever Get I fall between those two camps. I took 2 classes in creative writing 28 years ago in CEGEP (junior college here in Quebec. Grades 12 and 13 in the rest of Canada). I learned the mechanics […]
The origins of Bosulliman
I gave this name to my Publishing venture. To many it sounds unusual to many; that’s intentional. Where did I get the name though? When I began studying Animation in University in 1987, I was paired up with another guy I became friends with. I thought his last name was O’Sullivan. With that in mind […]
NaNo is 2 Weeks Over; Time to Get Busy!
I began to work on my other writing projects. Hopefully I’ll get some of them done over the holidays. Hunters’ Inc. I’ve now made into a project in Scrivener. Since the character statistics are all that I need to change for each game system that we’re using, I’ve split the book into separate chapters. I’m […]
NaNoWriMo 2012: How’d I Do?
First off: my apologies. Save for my progress bar for my novel, I didn’t really update this blog all November. I was hard at work on my novel, but not hard enough. I never made my daily word quota, my most productive day 1400 words. My final word count: 23923. Almost — but not quite […]
Another Worthy Kickstarter and Updates
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scottroche/the-way-of-the-gun-a-bushido-western-anthology This one has 4 days to go and still needs to raise a lot of funds to succeed. If you haven’t yet, please support it – and if you already have increase your pledge. A big reason why I didn’t update this blog in nearly a week was due to my preparations for NaNoWriMo […]