I’m very excited to be taking part in NaNoWrimo this year. After spending the past six months finishing a novel; and years attempting to do that before, the idea of writing a novel in 30 days is, well, thrilling. Seriously. And quite uncharacteristically my second novel Glimpse has an outline, an actual 3000 word long…
Read more NaNoWriMo, outlines, and finally: the title for my first book
Right. So … editing, okay … been at this for a solid week and I’m only at chapter 7. Sigh. Well, nobody said it would be easy, right? What I am enjoying, beyond fixing the grammar gremlins and all the red and green underlined bits and shouting at MS Word because dammit, sometimes a fragment…
So … yesterday something rather magical happened, fuelled by Nespresso, the remnants of a hangover from the night before, as well as lack of food: I finished The Book! Working title/s: A Greek Vintage / Under a Cretan Sky / My Invincible Summer / An Invincible Summer … I will be having a vote on…
Just a short update on the novel progress. Yesterday I reached the 50,000 word mark, a new milestone. Whoop whoop. Quite a feat I think (ahem) as it is the length of a short novel, Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook was 52,000 words and a Nanowrimo novel is 50,000 words. It’s taken longer than expected to…
Lily Graham 