November 1st — I will defeat NaNo this year and I’ll do it by the 20th! November 6th — I will defeat NaNo this year by the 30th! November 10th — I can still catch up this weekend. No problem! November 15th — Well, the whole experiment was about writing consistently, so even if I […]
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately thinking about creativity versus consumption. I’d noticed one day that it had been a very, very long time since I’d used my laptop’s keyboard for anything but typing in URLs and searching B&N for book titles. So long, in fact, that I didn’t quite remember the last […]
So my darling husband is insisting that I relate this story to you the way that I just did to him — and, well, I suppose I might as well. I guess I could consider it a signal boost. You see, I was reading this SFWA post about a new writing contest called The 2011 […]
So we’re five days into our sixty-two day journey of DéJàWriMo. How have you been doing?
Well, NaNoWriMo didn’t go well for me this year. I struggled through my first 15,000 words or so, upgraded my cell phone to a Droid2, and between the struggle, working 50 hour weeks, and having a new gadget… Well, let’s just say this will only be the second time since I started doing NaNo back […]
This is a list of links I’ve found useful for November 7th through November 15th: This Is Your Brain on Metaphors – NYTimes.com – A scientific look at how and why humans speak in, use, and respond to metaphors. Writing Exercises for a Chilly Autumn Day | Magical Words – edittorrent: Opening with theme – […]
This is a list of links I’ve found useful for October 17th from 18:24 to 18:47: The Dreaded Middle | Deadline Dames – Writing: Find the Time or Don’t « Whatever – Fun With Hyphens | Magical Words – Action! – Scenes: 5 Simple Questions for Revising Your Novel –
This is a list of links I’ve found useful for October 2nd through October 17th: Writing (and Revisions) — Tautologies | Magical Words – A Few Common Writing Problems | Magical Words – edittorrent: Transition Words – 20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words from Around the World – Shakespearean Insulter – Why You Should Write When Life […]
It’s October. You know what that means, right? We’ve got less than a month left until November 1st and the start of National Novel Writing Month – lovingly called “NaNoWriMo” by those of us crazy enough to participate! What does this mean? It means I, and a few thousand of my closest friends, will be […]