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 […]
Today is the third day of National Novel Writing Month, and I’m currently sitting at 5,164 words. This means that I am just a tiny smidge ahead on my word count. This is good, of course. It means I’m doing better than last year! How are you doing?
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 we’re five days into our sixty-two day journey of DéJàWriMo. How have you been doing?
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 […]
A young girl discovers that she is the Key to travel between Earth and the realms of Faery. Upon her kidnapping by dark Fae, her brother will accept any ally to get her back – including a pixie slave with clockwork wings and a band of man-eating goblins. Please feel free to leave your comments. […]
These are writers’ resource links I’ve found helpful and/or interesting for November 4th through November 11th: Character Physical Description List « Writing and Illustrating – Type M for Murder: Donald Maass on Developing the Hero/Heroine in our novels – StoryBoxSoftware.com – Novel Writing Software – PageFour – Software for Creative Writers and Novelists – Tabbed […]
These are writers’ resource links I’ve found helpful and/or interesting for October 22nd through November 2nd: World Fantasy Convention 2010 – edittorrent: Go! – Natural/Artifical: Scarf Weather + Answers! (Part Eleven: EDITING) – Between Fact and Fiction: Tips for First Drafting – Character Chart –
These are writers’ resource links I’ve found helpful and/or interesting for October 16th through October 21st: Gail Carson Levine – Show Some Character! — How to inspire readers with ordinary characters – Prepare Your Schedule For NaNoWriMo – Kit Whitfield – Ask an Editor: How do I make an editor like my characters? | Romance […]