My Plan for NaNoWriMo 2020

Nicole J Simms/ October 31, 2020/ Blog/ 0 comments

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National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) 2020 starts tomorrow! I can’t believe it’s here already. My NaNoWriMo Goal So, what am I doing for NaNoWriMo? Well, I’m writing the first book in my paranormal cosy mystery series. The idea for this book comes from a novelette I wrote in 2014. And I’ve been looking forward to writing something lighter because I

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The End of NaNoEdMo 2018

Nicole J Simms/ December 3, 2018/ Blog/ 0 comments

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Well, folks, NaNoEdMo is over. Did I complete the challenge? I wish I could say I did, but I didn’t. I managed to edit five chapters, so 45 chapters short of 50. However, thanks to NaNoEdMo, I broke my 2018 editing-chapter record. For months, it was a miracle if I edited one chapter per month, so to complete five and

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NaNoWriMo and NaNoEdMo 2018

Nicole J Simms/ October 29, 2018/ Blog/ 0 comments

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November is soon upon us, and that can only mean one thing for writers from all over the world: it’s NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) time. NaNoWriMo is where writers pledged to write at least 50,000 words of their novel in November. I first heard about NaNoWriMo in 2013, and in 2014 I decided to take part. You can read

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Don’t Give Up on Your Novel

Nicole J Simms/ March 30, 2018/ Blog/ 0 comments

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When I decided to write a novel, I knew a lot of hard work would be involved. However, I never expected that my novel would take so long to get it to a submission-ready level. I wrote my novel in 2015, and after a two-month break, I started the editing process. Three years later, I’m still in the editing process,

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