Diana's Writing Blog

In case you hadn’t noticed my awesome word count progress bar, I won NaNo again this year! Luckily, I managed to finish it before my Thanksgiving break. Because, let me tell you, I did a lot of running last week. Picking up the sis in Milwaukee, helpin…

Well, I hit 50k yesterday. I’m on chapter 9 of 10 now, so I’m guessing it’ll end up being about 60k max. That’s kind of short for a novel, especially one I wrote, but I want Thanksgiving weekend off, so I’m okay with it. Also, I posted an excerpt of …

So, I’m on chapter 4 now and on track to hit 25,000 words tomorrow. This’ll probably be the last excerpt I put up, but I feel like it’s where the action really kicks off, so I wanted to share. Again, it’s in no way the finished, polished version. Te…

So, this year’s NaNo novel features not one, but two people with disabilities. The main character suddenly can’t talk because of magic. And a pretty important supporting character is in a wheelchair because of a bullet to the spine. It’s a bit daunting…