I’d planned on finishing National Novel Writing Month 2025 on Sunday, 30 November, but I woke up this morning unhappy and decided to finish #NaNoWriMo today!
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Third Novel Progress Report
My third novel is almost writing itself. Even when my fingers stutter and stall on the keyboard, I don’t stop writing. 25,000 words, 9 chapters written. #NaNoWriMo #WritingCommunity #trilogy
NaNo2.0 — NaNoWriMo 2025 Launch Time!
Tonight’s the night after midnight when I join the novelling hordes with NaNo2.0 or NovNov to write book 3 of The Q’Zam’Ta Trilogy. Earned the Tell-A-Friend badge! #NaNoWriMo #WritingCommunity
Entering a New November Novelling Era
I’ve been trying to fill the void left by #NaNoWriMo’s implosion…semi-successfully. So I was super excited to see NaNo 2.0 launched, refocusing on the joy of #writing! I’m excited about novelling again! #WritingCommunity
April 16th’s Fantastic Poem A Day
Robert Lee Brewer’s poetry prompt for today is the title of my poem. Brewer wrote: “…what inspired me to create this prompt are the fantastic works of magical realists and poems like Donald Hall’s “On Reaching the Age of Two Hundred.”” Something FantasticSomething fantasticAs light —That bends and seeks yourSoul through the labyrinthOf lies you’ve…
Risky: Poem A Day
For today’s prompt from Robert Lee Brewer of Writer’s Digest, I immediately thought of how even today, the neurostimulation and neuromodulation treatments that heal much of my brain injury, are still considered risky, unproven. They’ve only been around 40+ years, proven for 20 to heal brain damage. But, I guess, we love to watch science…
Shake-It-Up Saturday
Shake-it-up Saturday is the sixth day of the Written Academy’s 7-Day Writing Sprint. You’re supposed to do something different or shake up your writing environment or whatever. Anything to shake up your writing routine. I’m playing with Lottie Animations.
Changing CES to taVNS
I wrote on Psychology Today about taVNS and its dramatic potential to heal brain injury. Then I decided to follow Dave Siever’s guidance on how to position the CES clips to provide taVNS. Wow! I did not expect such a powerfully motivating and productive result!!
Reliving in Novelling
Back to novelling. The second novel in The Q’Zam’Ta Trilogy. Will I last without NaNoWriMo’s external drivers?