Category: Link Up

Beautiful Books Linkup #3: In Which I Talk About My NaNoWriMo Editing Process and Writing Plans for 2016!

Posted December 11, 2015 by Alison's Wonderland Recipes in Blogging, Link Up / 13 Comments

Here’s my last Beautiful Books linkup for National Novel Writing Month! I got all the way to 50k words with my first draft, so I’m feeling super accomplished. Now comes editing! This linkup focuses on my plans in that arena. If you’d like to see which other NaNo writers have joined the linkup, swing by Paper Fury and take a look! Plus, read some of Cait’s posts while you’re there, because she’s hilarious and awesome. 🙂

 

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Beautiful Books Linkup #2: In Which I Talk About My Writing Process for NaNoWriMo!

Posted November 20, 2015 by Alison's Wonderland Recipes in Link Up / 9 Comments

Earlier this week, I published a post introducing the novel I’m writing for National Novel Writing Month. The post was part of the Beautiful Books linkup by Cait from Paper Fury (you should stop by her blog—it’s awesome!). Today I’m posting my second post in the Beautiful Books linkup, in which I talk about my NaNo writing process!

 

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Beautiful Books Linkup #1: In Which I Introduce My Novel for National Novel Writing Month!

Posted November 17, 2015 by Alison's Wonderland Recipes in Link Up / 6 Comments

If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve probably seen me post TONS of tweets about how I’m writing a novel for NaNoWriMo, but I haven’t really said much about WHAT I’m writing. At the start of November, I wanted to link up to Paper Fury’s Beautiful Books NaNo post series, in which I’d share a little bit with you about my novel…but I’m a crazy person who planned to do this in addition to writing 1.6k+ words every day, regular blogging, keeping up with my reading, moving (that’s right, MOVING), balancing my work schedule, AND completing regular household/life responsibilities. Oh yeah, and I got the stomach flu (I’m not saying it was in the plan, but it happened).

So…I’m just now getting around to the first post in the series, even though most people are already starting the second one. Excuse me while I cringe at my own unreliability. Better late than never, I guess? Either way, here we go!

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