MadameX

I may do this, but not for a novel, instead 50,000 words of articles and essays (I'm working on breaking into the freelance buisness).

Yeah, I was wondering for posting reasons.

Hi Everyone, I'm working on a novel in which three characters become vigilantes (with the whole mask and costume thing, by the way). They don't have superpowers, although one creates ...

Very nice poem. There aren't a lot of science related poems on YWS (or in the wider world, for that matter) and yours works very well. There are a couple ...

I don't really 'plan' so to speak, but I always have some sort of starting point, either a character, or a scene. Then I have a basic mental map of ...

I enjoy writing novels because I get to spend more time with my characters. Right now I'm working on several projects, one of which is a "novel" but is really ...

Well, its not like all of my manuscripts are going to be exactly 72,000 words. One might be 80,000 while another is 62,000, but my biggest problem in writing is ...

Also, the point of NaNo isn't to finish with a perfect piece, its to finish with a decent-length (honestly, 50,000 words isn't even a publishable length nowadays) manuscript that will ...

I'm afraid I'm not quite as insane as I sounded at first, as I'm counting the word counts already in each project. Together they total about 18,000 words out of ...

1. "Jane Eyre". It suck. Sorry. 2. "Into the Wild Nerd Yonder" a bunch of thinly veiled, snobbish moralizing. I don't even know why I finished it. 3. "Little Women" ...

I tend to use smelled and smelt interchangably, depending on the voice of my character. Actually, spelt is a type of grain (a synonym for wheat I think), but it ...

Kara--it would be awesome to have someone else doing this too. I figured it out to be 4,000 word per day or 1,000 word son four stories a day. I ...

My reasoning with the five novels is that I have trouble writing on one project consistently (for me, I get burned out trying to focus too much). I'm hoping that ...

Wow, really great poem you have here. I like the way you use emotion, without having to lean on cliched imagery. However, I do think there were a couple small ...

Since summer vacation is coming up, I'm embarking on a semi-insane project: 360,000 words in 90 days. The reason I'm doing this is because I've got five fleshed-out novel ideas, ...