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5 Month Writing Update: From NaNo To Now (SW#50)

April 1, 2020

Hai Beautiful People! It’s time for another writing update!! I want to start off by saying that I am aware of how crazy and topsy-turvy the world has become. I hope you are all safe and staying at home, keeping yourselves busy and staying productive. May these posts give you the spark of inspiration or that idle entertainment you need during this time xx If you’ve seen my last writing update, half a month ago now, I did say that […]

I’m Still Writing My NaNoWriMo WIP – Week 5 & 6 Update (SW#44)

December 11, 2019December 12, 2019

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Heyo Bookaholics! There are failures, but also successes! A little reminder… I did NaNoWriMo last month again! If you are new here and haven’t seen my previous NaNoWriMo posts, you can find them linked below, just click on the header image to view the post! Official NaNoWriMo WIP update posts will be running up until the end of the year, then periodic updates will continue as I write this novel. I love writing these as they keep me committed […]

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The Truth About Writing On Holidays – NaNoWriMo Week 4 Update

December 2, 2019

Heyo Bookaholics! Truth is, it’s hard. A little reminder… I’m doing NaNoWriMo this month again! If you are new here and haven’t seen my previous NaNoWriMo posts, you can find them linked below, just click on the header image to view the post! The Truth About Writing On Holidays. Look, it’s good to be optimistic. I live my life as an extreme optimist but that often times backfires. Sometimes we realistically cannot do everything we plan to, even if we […]

Week 3 NaNoWriMo Update & Changes I’ve Made To My Tracker

November 23, 2019

Heyo Bookaholics! These updates are so much fun! I’m doing NaNoWriMo this month again! If you are new here and haven’t seen my previous NaNoWriMo posts, you can find them linked below, just click on the header image to view the post! Changes To My Tracker: I don’t use the NaNoWriMo tracker because I don’t like it. Also, I live for this website called Pacemaker.press which is literally the best writing tracker on the internet. So recently I’ve made changes […]

NaNoWriMo Week 2 Update!

November 16, 2019

Heyo Bookaholics! Look at me keeping up with the updates 0-0! I’m doing NaNoWriMo this month again! If you are new here and haven’t seen my previous NaNoWriMo posts, you can find them linked below, just click on the header image to view the post! Progress Report! Brought to you by the most epic analytics dashboard: Pacemaker.press. This is not sponsored, this dashboard really appeals to my inner analyst. This progress update will take off from the Week 1 Update […]

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About The Characters – NaNoWriMo 2019! (SW#42)

November 14, 2019November 15, 2019

Heyo Bookaholics! I promise I’m writing! I’m doing NaNoWriMo this month again! If you are here and haven’t seen my previous NaNoWriMo posts, you can find them linked below, just click on the header image to view the post! I know this is an About the Characters post which usually includes visual aesthetics, but I won’t be doing Pinterest collages for two reasons: 1. I can’t choose out of all the photos, which ones to make into a collage; 2. I’m […]

NaNoWriMo Progress: Week 1! (SW#41)

November 7, 2019November 8, 2019

Heyo Bookaholics! What’s the update? I’m just going to open this post by saying that something happened to the NaNoWriMo Website and I really do not like it. As someone who has a habit of backdating things – this includes forgetting to log my words on the day that I write them – I haven’t figured out Are you up-to-date? This is my third NaNoWriMo themed post. If you’d like to stay up-to-date with everything that’s happening with me this […]

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!NaNoWriMo Writing In Progress!

November 4, 2019

Heyo Bookaholics! Positivity!! Due to this month being taken up by NaNoWriMo (which I am participating in) and exams (yuck), I have chosen not to do a formal TBR this month, lest it pulls me off course and away from my goal. Reading is just soooooo tempting!!! From the title, you can tell that this isn’t going to be a normal post. It actually wasn’t going to be a post at all but I thought I should keep diciplined and […]

The Start of NaNoWriMo!!

November 2, 2019

Heyo Bookaholics! Ah, Another Year Of Fake Optimism! So NaNoWriMo started yesterday… I only remembered to write because of @TheYARoom’s The Write Night on Twitter or I would have forgotten altogether. It actually allowed me to take a break from the horrid assignment I’d been working on all yesterday afternoon and smash out 610 words! My goal for the day was 2,000 as per my planning document, which I made and takes into account every day I’m busy, lowering the […]

A Basic & Simple Guide To Planning Your NaNoWriMo Story!

October 27, 2019November 20, 2019

Heyo Bookaholics! Setting up document & Stages of NaNo planning process! I’m creating this post for people like me who want to follow the NaNoWriMo story-planning guide PDF, but like flexibility and plan at a very high-level. In this post, I will be using the high-level steps from the NaNoWriMo story-planning guide (which I haven’t linked because I forgot where I found it) and include the ways in which I applied them to my plan, including snippets of the plan […]