NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, officially appointed to November, likely because NOVember begins much like NOVel. Cute. No one happened to think that November was a positively awful month to hold such a national event, namely because of the approaching holidays and the whole traveling and planning and stressing and food-comas and seeing-extended-family bits. But despite all of this, November remains National Novel Writing Month and despite all of this, every year hundreds ... View Post
Bait, Fish, and Reel Report for June 2013
Running just a little behind this month! Blame a looming fiction contest deadline! O_o But we'll get to that in a minute. First, let me see if I can get all this sorted out! 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 ... View Post
Professional Feedback Round #2: "Cheetah on the Roof"
This weekend I attended the New Letters Writing Conference at UMKC as a noncredit "student". After having just attended both the RT Booklovers Convention and the writing panels at KC, MO's ConquesT 44 science fiction convention, this very-much-more-structured and heavily literary conference was something of a... um... well, completely and utterly different world, lol - although it ended up being just as helpful and informational. But I'll get into that in another post. The purpose of this ... View Post
11 Most Important Revelations for My Writing Life (and Sanity)
You don't have to tell readers everything. Not only should you avoid info-dumping your poor readers in the beginning of the story, you should avoid info-dumping your readers AT ALL TIMES. Remember - bring out world details through action and dialogue - NOT description and exposition! Sprinkle these tidbits throughout - icing is tasty, true, but good lord, no one wants a fist-sized glob of icing all at once! Even as the author, you don't have to know EVERYTHING about your own story. ... View Post
WRITE WHAT YOU LOVE. PERIOD.
Has your writing been stuck in a rut lately? Feeling completely uninspired? Dreading opening up that document to stare unproductively again for hours at that blinking cursor? Then maybe it's time to re-evaluate the project in question. Ask yourself WHAT IS THE POINT you want to get across in that work? What is the driving force behind the whole thing? What is the message you want people to take away with them after reading? If these questions draw blanks in your mind, truly take a little ... View Post
Late Friday Night Special: Guest Haikus!
For something totally random and different, please enjoy these three amazing haikus, each revolving around a short story (which makes them way more awesome than a regular haiku, of course!), whipped up over lunch by another of my writer friends - Rod Galindo: Can you guess which short story of mine these haikus refer to?? ;) *** A new body waits, Transfer: unpredictable, Doc, where am I now? *** Werewolves on my heels Yes, nice day for a parade Lily, I love you *** And this one is ... View Post
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