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John P. Murphy

Award-nominated author of science fiction and fantasy

Tag: nanowrimo

Written by John P. Murphy3 November, 2010

On NaNoWriMo Day 3: An Outline and My Fear of Editing

Well, NaNoWriMo is proceeding apace. The story is outlined in Scrivener, with 25 scenes planned out and named. That means I’ll need to average about 2,000 words per scene in order to hit the 50k total. So far, I’m averaging 1k per scene. This suggests that I need either another subplot or another fairly major […]

Written by John P. Murphy20 October, 201020 October, 2010

Well, Hell. I’m Doomed to Write a YA Novel.

I’ve been working, on and off, on a mystery novel through the summer, as I’ve posted before. It’s coming along (about 5,000 words written that I haven’t thrown out already), but the writing is slow because, ultimately, I’m kind of unhappy with my outline, etc. etc. It’s stalled. I had been thinking about doing NaNoWriMo, […]

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