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Just wow!! I can’t believe NaNoWriMo 2016 is finished! And did I mention I WON?! How did everyone do? Did you meet your goal? Are you still alive?? Here are my final stats for the month: Total Words Written: 54,086 (According to the NaNo site. Somehow when I verified my words with NaNo I lost 200+ words that Word says I had??) Number of Chapters Written: 43 Well, I survived my very first ‘official’ National Novel Writing Month! It was intense and there were days I doubted I w

Week #4 of NaNoWriMo–Aaannnddd I’m done! I WON NANOWRIMO! Woo Hoo! Here are my stats and what I hope to accomplish next week! (Even though I don’t have to!) Words Written This Week: 9,943 Total Words Written During NaNo: 51,070 Total Number of Chapters Written: 42 Word Goal for Next Week: 4,000 So close, guys! Just a few more days and we’ll be done! Since I’ve already won NaNo, I set my goal low for the last 4 days–just 1000 words per day! Still motivation! How did you do thi

Week #3 of NaNoWriMo is over! *cartwheel, backflip* Yippee!! Here are my stats and what I hope to accomplish next week! Words Written This Week: 11,204 Total Words Written During NaNo: 41,348 Total Number of Chapters Written: 36 Word Goal for Next Week: 10,000 How did it go? Are you ahead of your word count? What did you learn this week about your characters and the direction of your plot? Comment below! Happy writing, friends! #Fantasy #YA #AmWriting #Shimshon #NaNoWriMo #Na

Week #2 of NaNoWriMo is finished! Yay! Here are my stats and what I hope to accomplish next week! Words Written This Week: 16,666 Total Words Written During NaNo: 30,278 Total Number of Chapters Written: 27 Word Goal for Next Week: 10,000 How did it go this week for you? Did you meet your word count? What challenges do you face to hit your daily word count? Comment below! Happy writing, friends! #Fantasy #YA #AmWriting #Shimshon #NaNoWriMo #NaNoWriMo2016 #Writing

Week #1 of NaNoWriMo is finished! Phew! Here are my stats and what I hope to accomplish next week! Words Written:  13,612 Number of Chapters Written:  14 Word Goal for Next Week:  14,000 What about you? Did you meet your word count this week? How was your first week of National Novel Writing Month? Comment below! I’d love to hear your stats, too! Happy writing, friends! #Fantasy #YA #AmWriting #Shimshon #NaNoWriMo #NaNoWriMo2016 #Writing

It is here!! Finally! I’ve seriously been thinking about all things WriMo for well over a month now. And yes, I did indeed have the proverbial nightmare-where-I-missed-writing-any-words-on-day-one dream, the night before it all started. But thank God, it wasn’t reality! I actually got almost 4000 words written yesterday! *happy dance, happy dance, happy dance, and jazz hands* What has been a great motivator for me? Music, of course!! There’s nothing like a steady beat to keep

Okay, writing people. I have decided to do NaNoWriMo! My first ever ‘official’ dive into the craziness of 50,000 words in a single month! After all, the world needs my novel, right? Not gonna lie: I’m scared. Really scared. Why? Because I’m an overachiever. If I set a goal and don’t meet it, I’m more likely to spiral into a depression over it, than I am to let it roll from my shoulders and remind myself that the world won’t end if I don’t meet my goal. So, everything about th