Mostly, I’m panicking at the fact that it’s Dec. 1. December? What the…? How did it get to be December? But I’m also happy to turn that calendar page because it’s the end of NaNoWriMo. Whew! I did NOT reach the overall goal of 50,000 words. I just couldn’t make the time, between nonfiction writing […]

I’m halfway through the NaNoWriMo challenge, and I finished my second first draft of an early chapter book last week. Now I’m suffering from a case of what do I do next? I have a list of chapter book possibilities I brainstormed just before NaNoWriMo started, but every single idea sounds stupid to me right […]

Gulp. Maybe I shouldn’t have done the math! Last week, I wrote 10,176 words in my NaNoWriMo challenge, and I finished one (very bad) first draft of an early chapter book. Over the weekend, I didn’t do any actual writing, though I did do a bare-bones plot outline (two or three phrases for each chapter) for […]

OK, I know it’s nuts, but I’m trying NaNoWriMo this year. Instead of writing one 50,000-word novel, I’m going to be writing a bunch of chapter books (think Katie Kazoo and Junie B. Jones), which are 7-10,000 words each. I love the genre and have attempted it before, with, um, not quite stellar results. So what’s […]