NaNoWriMo – Uncle Josh Talks too Much

Uncle Josh on his writing career

Published by Uncle Josh on November 18, 2024

It is November, which means novel-writing month for many, even though the NaNoWriMo organization has fallen apart and seems to have no desire to put itself together again. I can sympathize with that. I am, as of today, close to 20,000 words behind the goal, with most of my words going to various projects, not …

Uncle Josh Wraps up NaNoWriMo 2023

Published by Uncle Josh on December 3, 2023

I hit 50K on November 29th, which is to my knowledge the earliest I’ve hit the goal for month. I try to pace myself during November. Lessons Learned I have learned that the weekends and writing don’t really mix, and I decided early on that any future writing schedule I keep will remove the weekends …

Uncle Josh on NaNoWriMo 2022

Published by Uncle Josh on November 1, 2022

I don’t think I’ll spin up my NaNoWhineMo bot this year. It was a bit of fun but I have no desire to resurrect it. I tried my first NaNo back in 2004 when I was just starting out on this writing diversion and I cannot remember what I wrote. I think I “won” but …

Uncle Josh on Uncle Josh

Published by Uncle Josh on May 19, 2022

One of the lies I tell myself regularly is that I’m a writer. Only I haven’t written fiction in months, and I haven’t edited any of the work I have written, and I haven’t submitted anything for a long time, either. So can I call myself a writer anymore? I have several non-personal writing assignments. …

Uncle Josh on Themes

Published by Uncle Josh on January 1, 2022

I have not done much writing in the past few years, and I have not submitted a story in at least three. But I have been writing, slowly, haphazardly, and sometimes way too cautiously. I didn’t make the 50K wordcount for NaNoWriMo last year, but I did get a first draft of a short story …

Uncle Josh Preemptively Autopsies NaNoWriMo 2020

Published by Uncle Josh on November 28, 2020

I am almost certain to finish NaNoWriMo this year by hitting 50,000 words in a single text file. It’s not a huge accomplishment, though. I managed to force myself to write every day in November so far with only one day off, which has made catching up difficult but doable. The biggest challenge was not …

Uncle Josh On Finishing NaNoWriMo 2019

Published by Uncle Josh on November 30, 2019

My goal for this effort was to actually write the stuff I didn’t write last year. The conceit of the project is The Magician’s Journey. We know the Hero’s Journey or some “best-seller-in-a-box” checklist version of it. It is tied to Jungian archetypes (probably very loosely) and I thought about another archetype of the Magician. …

Uncle Josh Pokes 2018 with a Stick (1/3)

Published by Uncle Josh on December 6, 2018

The big thing this year was my internet provider, web host provider, and personal website were crushed when John Ogden shuttered SpiritOne. I started with SpiritOne back in the 90’s on dial up when I was on a Mac and a few other local ISPs told me they didn’t support Macintosh connections. I had stopped …

Uncle Josh Autopsies NaNoWriMo 2018

Published by Uncle Josh on November 30, 2018

I “lost” 2018. Am I upset? Kind of. Did I have “unusual circumstances”? No more so than usual. My wife having a trip to the Emergency Room and then surgery the Monday before Thanksgiving were tough things to bear at the time, but in the end they shouldn’t have affected my writing schedule all that …