{"id":8877,"date":"2026-04-21T12:45:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/?p=8877"},"modified":"2026-04-21T12:45:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:45:54","slug":"blogging-a-to-z-2026-n-is-for-nanowrimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/21\/blogging-a-to-z-2026-n-is-for-nanowrimo\/","title":{"rendered":"[blogging a to z 2026]: n is for nanowrimo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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So my next thought on the Blogging A to Z Challenge for 2026 was, if I failed at that challenge but succeeded at my National Novel Writing Month challenge to write 50,000 more words on THE LEGACY OF THE EXTRA CREDIT PROJECT, what would happen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why, I’d notch one more victory on the above diagram. Specifically, that dark line going down and to the right would tilt up until it intersected the convergence of lines above – which would put me at something like 290,000 words on LEGACY OF THE EXTRA CREDIT PROJECT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nanowrimo, for those just joining this blog, is a challenge to write 50,000 words of a new novel in the month of November. It expanded into “Camp Nano” challenges in April and July, and I personally, since I write long novels, use it to add words to manuscripts in process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About ten years ago, I started doing the Camp April and July Nano’s, since I wanted to finish my books before I die, and last December, I started doing the challenge full time until the end of the LEGACY OF THE EXTRA CREDIT PROJECT … which is turning into a damn trilogy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, approximately 10% of the words I’ve ever written in Nano were on this one project. I have a lot of work to do – I’m just finishing Novella 5 out of a project 10-12 novellas, and boy does it need editing – but I’m very proud of some of the work that I’ve done here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So if you don’t see me blogging, that’s because I’m writing, drawing or coding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mostly writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pictured: My “the reason you’re doing this” shelf – a collection of genre toys and personal keepsakes I use to remind me of why I work. Also pictured: my Nano yearly stats for the past quarter century or so, and the plaque I got from the now-defunct Nano organization when I cracked 2 million words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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