In the lower villages of Virilia, music is something that brings communities together. Lower village communities are always fairly close-knit, but music is one of the things that always brings a village’s members to one place and helps Continue reading “Preptober Prompts Day 2 – 2019”
Tag: National Novel Writing Month
6 Tips and Tricks for Writing Challenge Success
Originally written: Oct. 1, 2019
Updated: Feb. 18, 2025
We’re down to a month until NaNoWriMo, and Preptober has officially begun! As we officially enter writing challenge mode, I’d like to share a handful of tips and tricks that have helped me achieve success with NaNoWriMo and other writing challenges and will hopefully help you, whether it’s your first time participating in a writing challenge or your fifteenth. Continue reading “6 Tips and Tricks for Writing Challenge Success”
The Shared WIP Tag – Week 1: General Questions
So y’all, I totally intended to finish Preptober Prompts, but I just could not get all of the flash fictions done in time. Still, if you participated in Preptober Prompts I’d love to hear what you thought of it! Is it worth bringing back next year?
This month I’ll be participating in Julian Daventry’s Shared WIP Tag, which is all about NaNoWriMo projects. Each Friday I’ll get to answer a bunch of questions about my NaNoWriMo project, and I’ll link to the other participants’ posts at the end. :) Continue reading “The Shared WIP Tag – Week 1: General Questions”
Preptober Prompts Catch-Up
This is super late (five days late, in the case of the first prompt), but I’m catching up on Preptober Prompts as I promised yesterday.
We’re starting with Leila’s final prompt: Use an adventure that happened to you in the fall as inspiration for an event in your story.
I don’t have adventures, so this should be interesting. My life is super boring most of the time. (I might have to go digging through old journals for this one.) Continue reading “Preptober Prompts Catch-Up”
NaNoWriMo Wrap-Up
NaNoWriMo is now behind us. Actually, it’s been behind me for nearly two weeks, but for most people it has just passed. I went in with a goal of 100k in 17 days, thinking that 6k per day would be totally doable. And it would’ve been, if I hadn’t been so stuck on the end product of my book that I began to hate the writing process. So about halfway through that, with my novel, The Shadow Raven, at about 33k, I switched to short stories. I decided to write short stories for my friends and family for Christmas, so I started working on those instead of TSR, because TSR needed a break. Continue reading “NaNoWriMo Wrap-Up”