Day five in my month-long accountability project. If you like the idea of this and want to join me, tomorrow is the new moon and traditionally said to be a good time for starting new projects. Let me know and we can cheer each other on! Novel: I got up at 7.30am but got quickly [...]

Day four in my month-long accountability project. Novel: I got up at 6am when my husband was getting ready for work and fit in some writing before the work day started. I was partly motivated by an early morning Facebook discussion with Linda Watanabe McFerrin – thanks Linda! I also wrote a bit this evening [...]

Day three in my month-long accountability project. Novel: I didn’t manage to write a thing. Feeling disgruntled. Exercise: None today. I should have gone for a swim but I let the opportunity slip away. I really must go tomorrow. Other achievements: I did a reasonable amount of work. I sent two pitches to editors. I [...]

Day two in my month-long accountability project. Novel: Today’s word count was a measly 138 words, most of which I think will end up being deleted. I tried to start a new chapter but then realised that while my chapter plan outlined some broad-brush developments, I hadn’t actually decided on any scenes. I thought about [...]

Day one in my month-long accountability project, inspired by

Today is 1 November and the first day of National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo. Participants have one month – from now until midnight on 30 November – to write 50,000 words of a novel. I actually completed NaNoWriMo in 2007. I don’t intend to do it this year but I want to try to [...]