Category Archives: Writing and Publishing

Day 02-3/30: Going a bit sideways on NaNoWriMo

The PolyBlog
November 4 2022

Andrea did some work for school council and ToastMasters (add in another 1500 words) and Jacob did more work on his novel (another 288 tonight). I went sideways on my writing project. I did a presentation at Health Canada earlier this week, and there were a LOT of questions in the Q&A that I didn’t even get to live. So I offered to write a blog post where I answer all the questions. Tonight for day 3, I wrote almost 4000 words for the questions, and I don’t even think I’m a third of the way through all the questions. … Continue reading →

Day 01/30: NaNoWriMo has begun…

The PolyBlog
November 2 2022

So the “national novel writing in a month” writing challenge has begun, as it does every November. The goal is to write basically 50K words or the approximate length of a basic fiction novel. Our whole family is doing stuff this year, although none of us are really targeting the same wordlength as the “challenge”. Last year, I worked on my HR Guide and easily made it. This year? I’m hoping to actually edit and finalize the damn thing. I thought I would be done way earlier in 2022, but life intervened, and now I’m targeting January 1st for my … Continue reading →

#NaNoWriMo 2021 – Days 8-30 of 30

The PolyBlog
December 12 2021

Way back at the start of November, I committed to the National Novel Writing Month goal of 50,000 words in a month. I’ve done lots of writing in the past, never thought I’d do a binge one, but was feeling a little lethargic about my HR Guide. I want a full update for January, so I buckled down and wrote, wrote, wrote. I had hoped to reach 70K, but life intervened. I found it difficult to write much at night, and I was using a poor physical setup to write close to my son’s computer. He was also writing and … Continue reading →

#NaNoWriMo 2021 – Days 5-7 of 30 – Chapter 4a, b, 5a, 8156 words

The PolyBlog
November 8 2021

Over the last three days, I’ve finished a long chapter on understanding the HR process, added a section on acknowledgements, and drafted most of a chapter on searching for government jobs. Friday (Day 5) was 3865 words, Saturday was a light day for writing (918 words) but I did a bunch of research, and Sunday (Day 7) was back up to 3373 words. Call it 8156 over three days. My new combined total is 24,378 words, or about 34.8% of my 70K estimate for the guide. Jacob added 500 words on Friday and took Saturday and Sunday off. This brings … Continue reading →

#NaNoWriMo 2021 – Day 4 of 30 – Chapter 4a, 4481 words

The PolyBlog
November 4 2021

Tonight was a bit of a tough slog for content, part of a very long chapter for the HR guide. I did about half of it. Understanding the HR Process…Overview…Understanding Merit…Step 1 Needs…Step 2 Advertising (including clearance, etc.) I managed to get 4481 words today. My new combined total is 16222, or about 23.2% of my 70K estimate for the guide. Jacob added 481 words to his fantasy novel, bringing his total to 1637, or 13.6% of his 12K goal for the month.

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