by Clarissa | Feb 2, 2018 | writing |
I’ve finished my novel. It is over 69000 words long, includes nearly 5000 unique words, and took me 15 months to write. Though I’ve had the idea for much longer than that. I started writing it by hand, but then switched to computer. Partly when I realised...
by Clarissa | Jan 9, 2018 | writing
Well, I amazed myself with what I managed to write last year. I wrote nearly 114 thousand words, which is an average of 312 a day. That is over twice what I aimed for at the beginning of the year. And I wrote every day: holidays, visitors and Christmas...
by Clarissa | Aug 22, 2017 | writing |
In February I wrote about how I was starting to write. And I’m pleased to say that I’ve continued. I’ve written at least 100 words every day this year. Some days much more than that. In total I’ve written over 65k words, 39k of which is on my...
by Clarissa | May 27, 2017 | writing
I have a few times contributed to the 10 minute novelists drabble competitions. This is a challenge to write a 100 word story using three set words or phrases. And each story has to have a start, middle and end – so it is a whole story, which is surprisingly...
