J. R. FRONTERA, author

Rebel stories for rebel souls...

Camp NaNoWriMo Diaries: Day Three – When Tired Brains are Tired

Dear Diary, Yesterday was Day Three of Camp. Sure feels like I'm settling into the routine now.  And my bunkmates are doing superbly.  I'm so proud of all of them!  We are rockin' this thing this year!  We are awesome, if I do say so myself! But yesterday was difficult.  It was pre-Independence Day, you see.  So it's a short work week.  And that means the same amount of work has to be crammed into fewer days.  Not so much fun. Also, my plan to write over lunch hour was demolished by the ... View Post

Camp NaNoWriMo Diaries: Day Two – Wherein the Story Knows More Than I Do

Dear Diary, Yesterday was Day Two of Camp NaNoWriMo. It only took two days this time for the story to remind me it's really the one in charge.  (I suppose this means I'm improving as a writer?  Takes much less time these days to re-connect with the story, to get in The Zone?  Well, I'll just pretend that's what it means, yes ...) Months of internal debate, wall-sized plotting and notebook scribbling devoted to trying to figure out what comes next, and all it took was the equivalent of roughly ... View Post

Camp NaNoWriMo Diaries: Day One – People, Plot Plathways, and Panic

Dear Diary, Yesterday was the first day of camp.  I like all my bunkmates this time, and I'm pretty sure they're all going to actually participate and speak to me.  That should be a plus.  All of them are my friends, you see, so this camp is going to rock! All but two of us were able to meet up last night, and we made some good progress.  Almost all of us reached our daily word quota.  I've tried something different this camp.  I tried to not be quite so ambitious.  Sure, I've met the 50k ... View Post

Bait, Fish, and Reel Report May 2014

Someone once said that to be a successful and productive writer, one had to do the equivalent of “cutting bait, fishing, and reeling ‘em in, all at the same time”! This translates to writing as working on projects-in-progress while at the same time submitting completed projects to potential markets and also continuing to cultivate new ideas for future projects. In case you missed my previous post on this subject, at the end of every month I compile a list of what I accomplished as far as ... View Post

How to Not Forget All Those Awesome Ideas You've Been Getting Lately!

So, you've had awhile now to begin practicing writing down every single little inkling of inspiration that suddenly whacks you upside the head, as I mentioned in this post, which will go a long way in showing you how to finally reach the Happy Magical Land of I-Get-My-Ideas-From-Everywhere! But, some of you may now be looking something like this: You keep recording your ideas, somehow, someway ... but now you just have piles of random notes in random places, and can never find them when you ... View Post

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