nanonotes on day 14

originally posted at
The Writing Vein
by dot.


It has been an amazing day. Full of fitness and friends and team and fun; ending with some work. And I still managed to get in some writing!

I started with a 12 mile training walk with two of my Seattle half marathon friends. We were lucky to have a clear and sunny - although cold - morning; and no rain. Yay for no rain; after I felt like I was going to freeze last weekend with the rain, I have definitely decided that I am putting in my order for no rain on November 29th in Seattle. I'll take the cold (a friend and I did a 10k in early January and there was ice on the ground; I can layer and bundle for that). Please no rain. One friend took off at her faster pace at about 3 1/2 miles, which is fine; my fast is her stroll - and her fast is about 4 minutes per mile faster than mine. But the other friend and I kept up our pace and we made okay time. About mile 9 I started to hurt a little; about mile 10 I was knowing I could do the half marathon but "knew" I couldn't do a full marathon and why would I even try; at mile 11 I saw the end ahead and was driven toward that. We reached our cars, I stretched a little and rushed home to shower and change and drive to the shoe store, where...

The 2010 relay walking team I'm captain of was meeting for shoe fitting and trying on shoes. Seven of us made it there - it was fun and the staff was great. The last of us (which included me) left 3 hours after our arrival. With shoes. And inserts. And socks.

Then I stopped for sushi.

Then I went to a coffee shop with wifi where I proceeded to make more progress on my nanonovel. I saw myself nearing 30k, just as I'd seen us approaching 12 miles, and I thought, I *can* do this before I have to leave for work (which was just 10 minutes away). So I typed and I typed and what do you know!?!?! I did it!

My ending word count for today is 30,104. And the story is still progressing - yay. I hated to stop because I was getting on a roll (though not as good as last night's roll when I had to stop for sleep due to the walk this morning). Oh well, I get to meet with my nanowritingbuddies tomorrow! Yay.

p.s. - I probably am going to sign up for the marathon training, after all. The first meeting is in December, with biweekly training walks/runs to follow. After I push through those final 3 or 4 miles, I feel good. Kind of like NaNoWriMo!

nanonotes from day 13

Yay - I made it through the dreaded second week.... almost. Another day to go, but I'm feeling great about my word count. And the story gained a little momentum.

It's interesting. Tonight my partner was working, so I had the whole house to myself. Which is not a common event, given our disparate work schedules. But I did. And I decided, since I have a twelve mile walk tomorrow morning (the marathon is just fifteen days away! - yikes - ) that I needed some carbo loading tonight. It's okay - I can do this once in a while. I will not be pushing myself as hard as I will be for the half marathon in Seattle - but it is still walking twelve miles.

So I found a new to me place to go and I did. With my college ruled spiral bound notebook in hand and a pen. While I waited in line, I continued with the chapter I started last night. My whole day had been full of work, so I had not written anything today. But, standing at the little bar, I started writing. The maitre'd' guy (I think that wearing a plaid shirt and blue jeans allows me to call him this and not even bother to look up how to spell it correctly) told me politely that there was a table for me by the front window.

"Perfect," I said and put down a couple more words to complete the thought as I walked over there, with one eye on the aisle so I didn't run into anyone.

I sat down and quickly decided what I wanted to eat. For any of my friends who read this, they will scoff because I tend to not be a fast decision maker when it comes to ordering food. But, believe it or not, I decided what I wanted in about three minutes. And got right back to writing down my story. The waitress came, I ordered, my Merlot arrived and my beets, walnut, and goronzola on mixed greens salad.

I tried to eat left handed since I knew that writing left handed would be abysmal and I would only get five or six words down. Gave up. Ate right handed, put the last bite of greens and chunk of beets into my mouth and was back at writing. I can drink left handed and write at the same time. Which I did.

Then came the penne with lemon butter sauce, green onions, salmon, and halibut - oh, and artichoke hearts. Dang, I had to put down the pen to eat. But it was worth it and I have an entire second meal waiting for me in my refrigerator downstairs right now.

So back to the writing. Then came the check. And I kept writing. There was only a short line in the restaurant now and I couldn't stop. The story was flowing - although in a different direction that I thought it would but my hand was literally moving faster than I could think and I could not stop it.

Well, I had to stop it after a few minutes. To get home. Then get sidetracked by an email and then a phone call. And it was all good. Because when I did finally get back to my story, I discovered - again - that my by hand word count and the story it contained were not bad at all. And I liked it.

So, second week, hah! Who cares! I did it. And I faced interruptions (oh, life). And still I ended today with a new word count of, ta da ....

28,035

...that is 2,092 words by hand in the space of about 80 minutes, which included ordering and eating!

originally posted at
The Writing Vein
by Dot.

ack! no technology!

Today I had some down time on a job. No laptop. No wireless access even if I did (which means no access to my novel, since I'm using Google Docs for writing it). But I had pen and paper.

So while the clients were involved in individual activities for an extended time, I went back to pen and paper and wrote. And wrote - always keeping one ear and one eye on the room, listening and surveying in case I was needed.

For 35 minutes, I wrote longhand. I filled 10 pages of lined notebook paper. I did an estimated count of 1,650 words!

This brings my approximate total to 23,035.

I also noticed that my longhand word count was just as quick as my typing word count for a similar time. Interesting. Except that now I'm trying to type in all those words I wrote and I'm noticing that it is actually taking me longer to type in what I wrote than if I was creating and typing at the same time.

What does it mean?

Nothing, I guess. Except: hmmm, interesting!

originally posted at

The Writing Vein

by Dot.

in the land of nano you never know....

I was typing away, blissful in the productivity I was able to attain once I actually got to the writing meet-up with my buddy this morning. (It took a while, we were both late, but we did eventually make it.)

Then, all of a sudden, from out of the blue, it happened.

The story wants one of my characters dead.

I'm not ready to kill someone off yet. And not this character. She was going to be one of the primaries once I get to the exciting part of this plot. But, no - they want her dead. I'm currently deciding whether to overrule with my author's privilege and just have her be injured and taken to the hospital - I'll even give them a coma if they want. But I don't want her dead. No.

Who wins? The characters or me? What will I lose later if I try to play god in my story now? Or am I already god and this is their way of rebelling?

Oh, a NaNo dilemma.

I don't mind kidding off a character. Really. And it - to be totally, brutally, honest with myself - is about time something exciting happened. This plot needs to move along. Although I suppose that slow and plodding has its benefits during NaNo. But still.

Oh, what to do?

NaNo Notes: day 7

Today has been stormy. I overslept. Which is to say that I slept. A full 8 hours - no, not 8 hours all together - 6 hours, woke up, back to sleep within 20 or 30 minutes for another 2 hours. I still had just enough time to go for my 10 miles walk and get back in time for the next thing. But I did not make it 10 miles - only 6 and with 4 legs of hills. I have run a little low on sleep until last night (only 12 hours total for the previous 3 days) - and my body said no way was it going 10 miles. Plus it started to rain a lot heavier than I was dressed for. I was dressed for rain - layers, a waterproof rain jacket - but not the downpour that started, so I headed home, 2 miles out. By the time I got home it was torrential; truly. About 5 minutes later there was a lot of thunder and the rain kept pouring. Later there was a rainbow and I was wet and still cold to the bone; a phrase I don't often use because I have not experienced that feeling until now.

But you know what? Guess what started to come out in the next chapter of my novel. One of my characters decided to go for a training walk and it started to rain! Woo hoo. She is talking herself through it now -- or was when I had to stop to get to work.

I had a massage after a hot shower (I didn't plan to get soaked before the massage, but she has a table warmer so it was actually perfect!), went out for a quick dinner with my partner, then to a friend's art opening and sale.

Then, finally, to SE Grind for a couple hours of writing. And after a few minutes, the story started to unfold about one of my main characters heading out for a training walk, in the rain, and all she wanted to do was go home...

The Art of NaNoWriMo - imitating life.

NaNoWriMo: day 6 from Dot

originally posted at
The Writing Vein
by Dot.

An extremely sleep deprived day. I did not get to sleep immediately upon arriving home from work in the week hours of the morning today. Right now I cannot even remember what it was that was so important to do when I got home - but it was, I swear! I did it quickly, but it still delayed getting to bed for an hour. Then I had a very early job so that my number of hours I had to sleep was absolutely horrible. I did squeeze in two 10 minute naps today - which helps.

I came up with a new metaphor. These last two days have felt like the "old days" when you scrounged through the sofa and the car seats, collecting whatever coins you could so you could drive to the gas station and buy 5o cents or 75 cents of gas to get you around for a couple of days.

I've been scrambling around in search of long enough blocks of time to take a nap: 10 here, 15 there, another 10, and even a 30 last night. Just long enough for me to catch a little down time, eyes shut, lessening the chatter in my brain, to make it do-able to get through the next stretch of work.

But tonight - I will go to bed and I will sleep. I can't sleep as long as I want, since I have to do a 10 mile pace walk tomorrow. But, if I can wrap this post up and get to bed right now, I should be able to get a full 8 hours before I walk.

My reward will be a massage in the early afternoon.

Woo.

Oh, and my current word count? Give it up for me, who has passed another major milestone: 15,608 ! Yay.

NaNo Day Two from Dot

I arrived at the designated cafe about 20 minutes ago to meet up with Jenny and write. I was a little later than I'd hoped, since today was my pace training day and not a short one at that. I was scheduled to do five miles, fast - or fast pace - something, whatever, language escapes me at this moment, which is not a good thing.

So I was supposed to do five miles - and I did five miles. After talking myself into getting out there to do it. "Skip it," I taunted myself. "No," I replied. "Yes, one day won't hurt. Go write. You know you want to." I almost caved. Then I thought that I really can't skip at this point because - well, the half marathon is only 27 days away (now if this was in my nanonovel I would have written twenty seven days because that gives me a word count of three instead of two - but I'm not so you get the contractions and the digits normally).

I did the five miles at a decent pace. And ran into construction on the way here - typical of Portland in the fall.

And now I have food and coffee and water and my laptop open, with Jenny in front of me.

Distracting myself.

Here I go, back to nanoland. My beginning word count for today is 3,956. I'll let you know where I land when I have to rush off the get to the trainers. Before the Write Around Portland group. And then end with a stint of work.

Procrastination is ending now.

NaNo - ho!

originally posted at The Writing Vein
by Dot.

The Last Post of October 2009

I am writing this post in the very last hour of October for two reasons. One, because I really need to talk some things out and what better place to do it? And two, because I can't seem to do anything else whilst waiting to write that first line of prose tonight at midnight. I'm sure most of you are off having fun talking plots and characters and settings at the midnight write in and I wish I was there, but perhaps next year.

Today, I kind of had a mini-freak out. This is because I realized that I have absolutely no idea what my book is going to be able. I mean, I know the very, very, very basics of it, but I don't actually know what the conflict is, let alone how it's going to resolve itself. After two or three stress filled hours of frantically trying to string a plot together, I realized that that's exactly what NaNoWriMo is about: writing something, even if you have no idea where it's going. Let your characters take you where there going to go.

Literary abandon. That's the journey we're about to embark on and I'm sure I feel exactly like the pilgrims coming over on their boat, this time so many, many years ago. That epic excitement of what is to come and yet the apprehension of not really knowing where you're headed, just knowing you're headed to somewhere great.

Have an awesome and fantastic November writers and don't let any thing getting in the way of making it to the top! See you at the finish line (and several places in between).

I Don't Wanna Stop

(If I can borrow a phrase from Ozzy)

As if cranking out 50,000 words in thirty days isn’t enough of a challenge, I’ve taken the bait and volunteered to do some blogging here about my NaNoWriMo experiences. Which are limited, so it shouldn’t take long. This is only my second attempt at it. I took the plunge for the first time last year at the urging of an online buddy, and signed up at T-minus 4 days (October 28, 2008) with nary a thought in my little pea brain as to what I was going to write. But that didn’t stop me. Oh no. Common sense was nowhere in sight. My friend’s enthusiasm for the miasma that would become life during NaNo was infectious (in a good way) and so I took up the challenge.

Oh those first glorious days (once I had a story idea) flowed. Word count, shmerd count, thought I, as I typed merrily away. Who’syerdaddy! I taunted my muse. Big mistake.

Then reality set in. After two weeks, I missed an entire week of writing and my confidence evaporated like… like… like something that evaporates really fast. Like those little drips of coffee that fall when you take the pot off the hot plate in the coffee maker, and they sizzle and bubble and are gone before you can grab a towel and mop them up. Kinda like that.

I managed to clock in at something under 27,000 words (not much under) so not an inconsiderable effort.

This year, however, I am resolved to tough it out to the bitter end, even if I don’t make the full 50k. I’ve even conned …err… convinced two friends to join in the fray, and am putting the thumbscrews to a third. I have no pearls of wisdom if you are new to this, except to Plant Butt In Chair and write. Turn off the internal editor, first drafts are supposed to be crap. Get some good music to tune out the sound of the dishwasher running, and the dog barking, and your neighbor continually gunning the engine of some antique muscle car he’s been trying to restore for the last ten years…

Ladies and Gentlemen, start your engines.

countdown: 5 days, 3 hours, 41 minutes

originally posted at The Writing Vein, by Dot.

...but who's counting? oh, me... right... and thousands of other hopeful writers

And so I've entered the final week before NaNoWriMo. Am I prepared? Maybe. Am I ready to jump into this novel? Yes, definitely.

Maybe I should be making lists. What I need and when and where. Or maybe not. Life has been hitting me from right and left these last two weeks and I feel like I've been in a battleground. I won't bore you with the details nor expose personal garbage by spilling it here *grin. So the one thing I have done is put out a request to the universe to stop with the messes and get those stars aligned because I am going to write another novel beginning at midnight:01 on November 1st. And I need a little help getting things straightened out before that time.

Despite all the drama and the too many things to do in too little time, I am excited. I am excited to see where this idea leads me. All you see on my author's page synopsis is what I know. I don't have specific characters in mind nor specific incidents. I don't know if what I wrote as a synopsis will be a scene, the start, or the setting in general.

But it will happen. It will go somewhere. It will be completed. As I work, and teach (which is work, yes) , and finish out the last three weeks of the writing group I'm facilitating, and wrap up the final two weeks of the writing workshop I'm taking, and train for and walk my first half marathon. I can.

Authors Anonymous

Hi, everyone, my name is Gloria and I'm a nut-cased author. It's been 2 years since my last story, though only hours since my last prose.
I've never done this before. I'm starting to feel the thrill of a nerve-wracking challenge, an uphill climb I'm not so sure I can endure. I've got a business trip in November and, of course, the holiday, for which I'll have guests for 5 days.
But I've got a rough outline and a few characters that I'm starting to like. They're beginning to speak to me; their stories are insisting that they be told. I can't imagine what else could push me through to the last word in one short month....to uncover the characters as if they were already written, piece by piece, page by page.

non-writing preparation

But then, doesn't everything we do relate to our writing?

True.

What I mean is non-writing tasks to prepare for the writing.

In November, you mean.

Yes. {sigh} In November. The Big Month. The Month of Writing Dangerously.

Oh. So?

The non-writing tasks to-do list:

1. - sleep, since I will be getting less of it in November.
2. - buy some instant coffee to stash in the car, my backpack, by laptop bag, my purse (okay, okay - I'll try the Via, a jar of Caffe d'Oro won't fit in my purse) - for those times when I don't have time to make it or buy it, or maybe not enough money to buy it (I'm working less in November to give me time to write)
3. - buy extra underwear and do all laundry on October 30th to minimize laundering needs
4. - schedule a sleep-in for December 1st
5. - buy snacks, nuts, quick meals, and electrolyte tablets and a lot of popcorn; okay, and some peanut M&Ms and/or Snickers
6. - food prep: hard boil some eggs on October 31 and cook up a bunch of rice; slice some veges; make sure have soup and crackers, cereal, soy milk, coffee and coffee
7. - make sure ibuprofen is stocked
8. - make "writing, do not disturb" signs
9. - send an email announcement that I will become unresponsive to emails, phone calls, letters, and so on for a month
10. - get extra exercise since it will be tough to keep logging the miles while I'm logging the words (unless I can figure out how to work even less)

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NaNoWriMo Brown Travel Mug, Reviewed

In preparation for NaNoWriMo this year, I needed to replace my leaking travel mug. Coffee is as beneficial for the Day Job as it is for my writing sessions. I also want to support The Office of Letters and Light, so I ordered the official NaNoWriMo Brown Travel Mug.

The mug is indeed brown. It holds coffee without leaking. It has the words "NaNoWriMo" and "Author" on it, as well as a viking helmet.

It is worth every last red cent. I would suggest paying via credit card, however, as gathering that many red cents into an envelope and posting it is not listed as a payment option. Save the large envelopes for story submissions.

Which reminds me, I have a story to submit. I'll go do that, and you should consider ordering the travel mug.

(14 days left to go!)

recruiting

Is anyone else recruiting? I am!

I have one returning NaNo-er convinced and she's coming along with me. Jenny and I met last year during NaNo (she's the one I met through our mutual connection of Ariel Gore) - and we've been writing together since. It started slow, our meeting to write - kids, work, schedules, working out/training, home. Later we aimed to meet weekly - which we do for a while, then it drops off when one of us adds something else into our schedule or a job comes up (darn that money making necessity!). But we are doing regular meet-ups and have recently added a third person to our group. Jenny is just finishing up a new draft of last year's nanonovel (go, Jenny!) and I get to read it - yay. So, unless something changes between now and November 1st, Jenny will be along with me.

There is another writer I met through Ariel and NaNo last year, who I think is going to do it, again, too - Christi. She's still a little undecided, I think - but it would be great to have her along for the ride. She's not local - so we won't be meeting in person; although we have set up an online writing group with Jenny and the third person who sometimes joins Jenny and I.

I tried to recruit Steve. A friend and writer and we share our income generating profession, as well. He replied to my question the next morning with "I don't like to use the F-bomb before 10 AM. No. But I'll be here to cheer you on." It was a long shot, since linguistics is his thing and he is a writer who searches for the precise word - each and every one of them - pretty much on the first draft. But I thought I'd try.

Alexander is the third person who sometimes meets with me and Jenny. Actually, Alexander and I also share the money-producing profession. And Alexander and I have known each other many years. We have met to talk about writing and done some writing together in the past - we never really got it to a regular schedule and sometimes go months without seeing each other. But he may also be joining us in the pursuit of a nanonovel. His primary thing is film and radio script, although he also does incredible short story work. I hope he makes the leap and I look forward to seeing what comes of it.

I also tried to bring in Suzanne. But she thinks she can't write. She wants to write but hasn't done any creative writing for a very long time. I know she can. And I think she'd be great at nano-ing. And she's currently between jobs so she's got the time. I don't know if she'll jump in the nanopool or not - but I'll try her again in a week or two.

Who are you recruiting?

Pre-Planning with nibo

I know that a lot of writers are on those sides of this debate. Some, like myself, use October as a time to hone their craft and prepare for the break-neck pace that will be November's writing challenge (especially those WriMos, like myself, who have opted to set an even higher wordcount goal). Others prefer a more organic approach to noveling. Many use November as a way to explore themselves by becoming just another observer of what their novel is going to become. A good friend of mine particularly seems to enjoy this method as we were talking about it today during our weekly Thursday Writing Night.

I met Simms last year at the NaNoWriMo kickoff party in what was possibly Portland's kitschiest coffee shop ever (sadly, it's no longer operating and has been renovated by new management with better coffee and furniture with a little less character). He was my table buddy for the overnight crazy-fest that is Portland's usual kickoff. I was there in blue flannel pajamas and, as a token of my goodwill for sharing his table (and powerstrip) with me, I gave him a small, hand-knit, green bunny that looked possessed and just a little bit demonic. With all due gravity, I informed my new friend that this was, in fact, a Plot Bunny(tm) and it would bring him wordcount. As a note of interest, up until at least recently, he still carried it in his laptop bag to all of our writing meetings.

Anyway, back to the story at hand. Simms and I have very different approaches to NaNo. He's a partaker of the organic approach to writing, immersing himself in the story and letting it tell him where it's going to go. For the first few years that I did NaNo, I was the same. I'd come up with some ideas and maybe a character or two, but never really outlined. The last couple of years, however, I've started outlining! I have characters, locations, a plot, and lots of other things that seem a little un-NaNo created  by the end of October to aid in the writing process. This year, I'm telling myself that it's all okay, because I'm aiming for 90,000+ words in 30 days and that means averaging a bare minimum of 3,000 words Every. Single. Day!

I don't know if this all really had a purpose except for me to come onto this communal blog, talk about outlining, and simply brag a little bit that I got A LOT of outlining done tonight. I'm aiming for somewhere around 35 chapters when all is said and done. So far, I have a basic plot idea for 26 chapters and a pretty good idea of where the rest of them are heading! I couldn't be more pleased. It's going to be the best crazy zombie book I can come up with!! And I'm already planning several gratuitous PG-13+ scenes to keep my interest when I'm writing next month.

Oh, and I know for a fact that some more plot bunnies are going to show up in Portland this season. I have a wonderful friend working on making a whole warren for raffling off!

Atalanta's Intro

NaNo Screenname: Atalanta
Novel genre: Science Fiction
Location: SW Portland
Goals: 50k + sanity intact

My name is Mel and this will be my sixth NaNoWriMo. I was a Municipal Liaison in Western New York (Bath/Hornell) for two years and moderated the Newbies Forum as well. I moved to Portland last spring and absolutely love it here -- and look forward to another blessedly rainy winter.

I'm not technically supposed to be doing NaNoWriMo this year -- I made a big deal out of quitting after 2008 -- but I just couldn't stay away. Instead I've decided to use the motivation to push through my intimidation at writing sci-fi in long-form for the first time (astrophysics and quantum-particles being a tad more complex than the swords and magic horses I'm used to working with).

So, here I am with half a plot about a misanthropic scientist at a research facility in orbit around a neutron star. There will be intrigue, suspense, shocking revelations... and hopefully at least one truly spectacular explosion.

Alas, I won't be writing any of it at the local coffee-house write-ins. I could possibly borrow a laptop, but the idea of trying to write surrounded by so many distractions doesn't appeal to me at all. Instead I'll make an effort to show up to at least one of the meet-and-greets planned for this month, probably in the Beaverton area -- that is, if I can overcome my own inner misanthrope.

I'm also part of the AIM NaNo Circle for virtual support (non-local), if anyone wants to join us.

Dot's intro

NaNo Screenname: dot. (oooh, I love originality)
Role: writer
Novel genre: 2008 was literary fiction, ghost story, mystery, lesbian/gay; 2009 : probably mystery, adventure, lesbian (since I don't have a plot or characters, I can't really say!)
Location: SE Portland (Mt Tabor/Montavilla area)
Goals: to be winner before the Seattle Marathon, where I'll be walking the half marathon, on November 29th.

This is my second NaNoWriMo. Last year I became a winner the day before Thanksgiving. I had, I think, 56,001 words by midnight November 30th. I completed the novel on December 1st with another 3,000 words in that one day.

Come to think of it, it's funny that I didn't have a plot, characters, setting - anything - when I opened my laptop at midnight on November 1st -- and I didn't have an ending at midnight on November 30th.

But, see, it all came together! And I'm very pleased with my ending and like the storyline in the rest of it.

Right now, to prepare for November, I am *not* making an outline or researching characters or periods or anything. I like the surprise of seeing who shows up at the beginning. I will, again, be armed with my word bag (thanks to Ariel Gore) and a list of prompts (thanks to my Write Around Portland facilitator training) just in case nothing comes to me at the magic 12:01 AM time.

To prepare for November I *am* blocking out time in my work schedule. I sent some proposed dates for getting together to write with my writing buddy so we can have it on our books and not forget to do it. Actually, she and I met during the 2008 nano-adventure. And I did arrange to go up to Seattle 2 days before the marathon so I have time to not only relax and view the course and do all the other things I need to do two days before, but also to give myself time to write by being away from work and home and all of the distractions which tempt me away from my writing. I will also be staying in Seattle until Monday afternoon - either hastily typing away to cross the nano finish line or basking in the glory of being done!

Oh - and I think I'm going to take the train up and back so that I don't lose those precious 7 hours of writing. Which reminds me, I need to see if there are electrical outlets on the train. Hmm?

I'm not doing any writing training right now, other than being in my 4th Lit Star Training writing course with Ariel Gore and by writing weekly with the Write Around Portland group I am facilitating.

I will also be doing postings on my website as things go along from now until November 30th! Some of them will be duplicates and many will not. Last year's nanoposts are archived. If you want to take a look, I'm at The Writing Vein.

The NaNo Project

My name is Lauren and I'm the (ninja) ML for the Portland, Oregon region of NaNoWriMo. 

For the last two years, I've used a blog to write about the process of doing NaNoWriMo. This year, I think it would be a lot of fun to get a whole bunch of authors to make blog posts in the space and really see what it's like writing a NaNo from many perspectives.

You can write as few as 1 post and as many as 100! (Note: 100 was arbitrarily chosen, I will not complain if you write 101 posts.) You can write about your over-caffienation, you MC who just mucked up your climax, the pink-haired pixie that won't leave your love interest alone, or post small excerpts from the text of your great project!

Limitations: For starters, this will be a project specifically for writers located in the Portland and Greater Portland Area.