Word Maze - what I'm learning about writing
The second season of Word Maze is all about writing fiction. Join Pilar during NaNoWriMo. Writing, struggling, reading (favourite mode of procrastination) and podcasting her journey. Happy 50k if you're also Nanoing!
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 13 minutes
- Episodes
- 48
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2019
WM04 A Little Bit of Intellect
The first part of this episode covers:
cornucopia
nadir
tenet
synedoche
surmise
discomfiting
cockamamie
gasket
actuator From these books: “Hitman Anders and the Meaning of it All” by Jonas Jonasso…
NaNoWriMo Day 4
I give a little bit of the plot away, or else I can barely share anything of what's going on with my story... The joy of ideas coming to you and why am I still pulling myself away from my keyboard??!…
NaNoWriMo Day 3
Day 3 and I'm already struggling! Why I brought in a scene where a cat goes missing, changing character names and hey, I hit 5,000 words!
NaNoWriMo Day 2
My thoughts today: Does plotting the story in advance destroy the magic of discovering the story? How I've solved my third/first person dilemma. Why are we afraid of writing?
NaNoWriMo Day 1
I've started NaNoWriMo and already have a dilemma... Looks like I might have to go over my first 1600 words and rewrite...
WM03 A Little Bit of Authority
The first part of this episode covers these words...
Apocryphal
Vicissitude
Suzerain
Plutocrat
Unctuous
Insouciance
Perfunctory
Epistemology
Skew From these books: “South Riding” by Winifred Holtb…
WM02 A Little Bit of Suspense
The first part of this episode covers these words from these books:
Recce
Ensconce
Chagrin
Mollified
Wynceyette Cantered
Atoll
"Breaking Cover" by Stella Rimington "The Letter" by Kathryn Hughes …
WM01 A Little Bit of Everything
The first part of the episode covers these words from these books: Soubriquet Insouciant Douse Glibly Soubrette (which sounds a bit like one of the other words, soubriquet) Iniquity Cantankerous Lac…