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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Wrapping up NaNoWriMo 2009

Another November, another novel complete. This was my sixth November novel, and even though it's still not done yet, it's my favourite. I'm going to try and write a thousand words a day until it's done, which should be about a week.

NaNoWriMo 2009 Winner!

Validated my novel today at 50104 words: There's a minor wrinkle in that the story has another 10k still to run, but I won! I can get a hard copy printed! Despite house repairs, and karate tests, and grotty weather, I wrote a 50k novel. Now I can

Tweets for the week of November 27th

* 100 pages and a foggy sunrise photo this morning, got Long Two Kata RIGHT last night. Good times. * Owl City is my new favourite band, and SO unlike the other stuff I listen to. Love Fireflies and Vanilla Twilight * Found my little camera in a pile of cables! It had

Purple Belt!

I took the test for my karate purple belt at Tracy's Karate in Kirkwood on Wednesday 25th November. The test was at 8pm, which gave me all day to get nervous. Today just didn't seem right without a quick run through of my Long Two kata

NaNoWriMo week 4

Had a few off days, then stayed at home while Paul went to the St Louis Night of Writing Dangerously, from 5pm to 11pm at MoKaBees. I can't do late nights, but I did get 4165 words done and hauled myself back on track for my 60k story.

Fireflies

I heard this song on the radio last week and loved it. Loved it! Fireflies by Owl City You would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep, 'cause they fill the open air and leave teardrops everywhere you'd

Tweets for the week of November 20th

* Hit 25k on the novel and didn't realise! Stopping when you know what happens next is good. Still haven't hit the halfway crisis though.. * Fixing machine-generated HTML is like using chopsticks by remote control. Chocolate helps. Lots and lots of chocolate... * Small camera got lost

NaNoWriMo week 3

This is a longer story than I expected. Normally I plan out a 50k novel, broken into twelve 4200 word chapters. My chapters are anywhere from 4700 to 5300 and I haven't resorted to adding poems, song lyrics, or other obvious padding to the story. Sorted out the

Word wars

If you're logged in to the NaNoWriMo site when you look at the Word count Widgets page, it displays your personalised widgets. One of those is a Word War widget that pits you against Fatebringer. He's a real guy, part of the St Louis region, ridiculously

NaNoWriMo Week 2

Crossed the 25k mark this week, but I haven't quite got to the halfway point of the story, that's another few thousand words away. I have a nasty suspicion this one wants to be quite a bit longer than 50k. Characters are turning out a lot

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