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
Trial By Fire: Lessons and Habits Finally Realized and Learned in NaNoWriMo Year 2
And I thought I'd learned a lot from my first year of participation in NaNoWriMo. Pah. I confess that my transition, I feel, was a bit rockier than most in the beginning last year, likely because up until that point I had spent the previous nine years writing only fanfiction, which is a completely different beast than original fiction (and NOT just for the obvious reasons, but that's a whole different post...). It took me awhile to settle into the original fiction brain last year. But this ... View Post
Bait, Fish, and Reel Report for November 2013
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
30 Facts about my 50k Words in November
This post idea comes from A Girl Who Writes, who tagged me in her post in a tricksy attempt to con me into doing this very thing! I suppose it worked. Lol. I know I have been super quiet around here for the past month, but I did, indeed, WIN NaNoWriMo, having written 50,327 words in 30 days! I posted a few excerpts throughout November from the NaNo WIP - if you happened to miss them, check out the Writing Prompt Wednesday category and you'll find them there easily enough! Things will get ... View Post
Writing Prompt Wednesday: an excerpt from "The Good Thing", the NaNo novel.
Last little snippet for the month. Shucks. I was kind of having fun posting these! But I can't give away too much, I guess, right? This piece comes from Chapter 16, and is also unedited. Thanks as always for reading! - JRF *** Vince brought the van to a sliding halt at the much smaller secondary gate along Una Duo’s southern side and jammed it into park, flinging his door open as he turned to Sokolov. “Grab the gun. You see anything coming near us that ain’t me or that guy over there, ... View Post
Writing Prompt Wednesday: An excerpt from "The Good Thing", the NaNo novel.
An itsy bitsy third piece for all of you lovely people! Thanks so much for reading and commenting and liking things around here! I really appreciate it! November's almost over, and then I'll have more interesting (and varied) things to say, promise! ;) In the meantime, enjoy this snippet from Chapter 14... unedited and raw, hopefully not terrible... although I admit I feel kinda cruel for leaving you hanging on this one but, hey, I gotta make you want to read the book, right?? Mehehehe... ... View Post
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