Jaymi Elford

Author of Tarot Inspired Life and the Triple Goddess Tarot. Storyteller. Tarot Reader. Firespinner. Gamer.

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Simplifying the Writing Notebook

Geekery, Writing

I’ve been keeping a writer’s journal/notebook/thing for years now. At first, I used a simple bound notebooks where I’d scribble stories, ideas for stories, freewriting, dialog snippets, and character descriptions. Later, I tracked submissions and notes on stories, freewriting, character…

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NaNo 2010: Write In Motion

NaNoWriMo, Writing

Word Count: 13289 for a total of 53,607 I originally wanted to post this recap of Saturday’s awesomeness on Saturday or Sunday but my brain was feeling a bit too fried. Doing it today also gave me the distance I…

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NaNo 2010 Day Ten

NaNoWriMo, Writing

Word Count: 2833 for a total of 25871 Revised Words: 5971 for a total of 29009 I’ve done it! I’m now on the backside of 50k words. I’m not sure if it’s all downhill from here but it does feel…

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NaNo 2010 Days 5-8

NaNoWriMo, Writing

Word Count: 2973 words today, for a total of 20353 Hooboy. What a weekend. I didn’t post anything mainly because I was busy with a Tarot Intensive that my friend Katrina Wynne was putting on. Pretty much ate most of…

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NaNo 2010 Day Four

NaNoWriMo

Word Count: 3013 words today, for a total of 11770 Today was funky. I woke up late, and had to attend to Real Life things before I could actually properly sit down and focus on anything. I did manage to…

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NaNo 2010 Day Two

NaNoWriMo, Writing

Word Count: 3077 for a total of 5644 Today I took the plunge and badly wrote a car race and wreck for my MC Julien. Basically, the goal was to kill him off so the real story starts. A friend…

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NaNo 2010 Day One

NaNoWriMo, Writing

Word Count: 2567 In 2008, while I went crazy and wrote a novel in a month by hand, instead of posting the whole thing live, I wrote about my writing experiences. This was partially based off a fellow writer (and…

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Story ideas come from the strangest places

NaNoWriMo, Writing

This year’s NaNoWriMo novel is based off an experience I had this past July. I was driving my car in town and speaking to my spirit guide. I was musing how such a guide ended up with me as their…

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The Value of Tracking Scenes

Geekery, Writing

Last night I attended a NaNoWriMo Plot Party where we discussed various techniques on plotting and drafting stories. One of the things that stuck with me was a small discussion revolving around the idea of scenes in novels. Taken from…

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Summertime Fun Updates

Geekery, Miscellany, Writing

So crazy month came and went and I’ve been spending the final weeks of August completing various projects. I got my level one certification with Katrina, started working on BATS items and Fall Equinox, and completed writing and sending in…

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