Category: Writing Challenges

Challenges found on the Internet, or elsewhere

6000 words behind schedule

After 3 days of non-writing, massive catch up today. Still 6000 words behind schedule but am motoring on. And the plot is becoming more exciting…..

How is my MA application going? Well, I have had an email asking for a sample of my written work, no more than 5000 words of fiction. After some agonising, I have decided to submit a sample from my current NaNoWriMo project. It may not be polished, but it has vigour and immediacy to the writing. The alternative is a short story I have been working on, but that has been edited to death and only comes to over 1,000 words. So NaNoWriMo it is.

Work got in the way

Have had three very busy days.

  1. Day 1: Working all day, including chairing a meeting.
  2. Travelling down to London and finding I had booked a hotel for the wrong month!
  3. Day 2: Spending a day doing workshops – 9 hours on my feet.
  4. Travelling to Birmingham by train and finding hotel in a rainstorm.
  5. Revising into early hours for an accreditation session.
  6. Day 3: Doing an accreditation session.
  7. Travelling back home by slow cross country train.
  8. Then 1600 words before bedtime.

Only 6000 words behind schedule!

11,000 and rising

Woke up this morning in a great mood. Yes, 11 thousand words – and a plot to go with them. No stopping me now!

Then I made the foolish mistake of re-reading the beginning of the story. Oh dear. What a load of utter rubbish. Why am I bothering? After a very strong coffee, and a stiff inner talking to, I decide to carry on. Nobody is going to read this. Its just an exercise in unfettered creativity. Keep going….