Yup, exactly what the title says. Very fittingly, I hit the 50k mark on my second write-in. It’s pretty satisfying to start and end NaNoWriMo on the same way. One thought: I just finished Cal Newport’s Deep Work (review to come) and I realised that what he says about regularly using your mental faculties is… Read More I won NaNoWriMo 2019!

Last week of NaNoWriMo and I’m so happy to still be on track! I broke the 40k mark today so if I can stick to the same pace that I’ve been doing, I can definitely hit 50k words by Saturday. I’ve also put up a little bit of what I’ve written on Wattpad – it’s… Read More NaNoWriMo Week 4: Almost There

I’m a little late with this update because yesterday involved a lot of moving between countries (which sounds impressive until you realise it just involves getting stuck in the causeway jam between Singapore and Malaysia). I did get about 450 words in so I decided not to push it at night – I want to… Read More NaNoWriMo Week 3: Staying the Course

Word Count: 15,700 words If we leave out today’s word count, I’m pretty much on track for NaNoWriMo. I missed a day, but I managed to do a bit more than 1,667 every day so I managed to catch up. Unlike before, I can’t really knock out 1,667 words in one sitting. I’ve found it… Read More NaNoWriMo Week 2: Identifying the reason for NaNoWriMo

Wow I haven’t done a post like this in years! Three years, to be exact. I logged into the NaNoWriMo site to make a new project and realised that my last NaNoWriMo project was from 2016. I’ve pretty much lost the daily writing habit sometime in the last three years, so I’m hoping that this… Read More NaNoWriMo 2019, Anyone?

Today, I’ve validated my NaNo WIP and am officially a winner!! I’m not sure, but I think this is the earliest that I’ve validated the novel. I’ve normally validated only on the last day, so this is a pleasant feeling. This is the first year where I used an outline system, and I think that… Read More NaNoWriMo 2015 Winner!!

Ok, I’m a little late this week, but that means I have exactly one week to go. And right now, my word count is at 43,280 which puts me at almost three days ahead of the whole thing!! I’ve been averaging about 2000 words these past few days (except when I had the headache), but… Read More NaNoWriMo 2015: Week 3

And with my week 2 update, I can say that I’m back on track!! I’ve made it to 24076 words, which means that I’m slightly over the target for today! It’s been a tough week – I’ve managed to write a bit more than 1667 per day most of the time, but there were days… Read More NaNoWriMo 2015: Week 2

I have realised that this blog has turned into the occasional writing update. (Also, I need to update about how the editing went… all those months ago ><) But anyway, I’m participating in NaNoWriMo again this year, and here’s my Week 1 update: Word Count: 10,085 I’m 1581 words behind, as of today, and that’s… Read More NaNoWriMo 2015: Week 1