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
How To Get More Story Ideas (otherwise known as: How To Tap Into the Elusive "Everywhere")
If you are like most yet-to-be-published writers, you attempt to learn all you can from the successful career authors any chance you get. This often includes reading magazine articles, interviews, and online articles about them, and sometimes even traveling to who-knows-where to meet them live and in-person at some sort of writer's conference or author signing. If you have done any of the above, you know very well and good that one of the absolute most common (and most utterly annoying) ... View Post
Surviving NaNoWriMo: Tips and Tricks to Come Out of It Alive, If Slightly Less Sane
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
Pushing Through the Romanticism of Being a Writer
I think probably the most valuable thing I learned from NaNoWriMo last November (aside from the very important fact that I could, indeed, write a whole lot of words in a short amount of time) was that sometimes, writing could actually feel like work. I feel that many creative people, especially when they are younger, feel that if they could just get a job doing their creative enterprise of choice, and make a living off of it, they could be happy working all day every day for most of their adult ... View Post
What I Learned from NaNoWriMo 2012
My goodness. Let me just say that I am really glad November is over. If you are wondering why I did not happen to post here after November 2nd, and you guessed that it could have had something to do with needing to write 50k words in 30 days, you would be correct. I really had no time to do anything extra in any spare time throughout November because every minute was spent working on my word count. I wrote in cars, in trucks, on airplanes, next to swimming pools in Las ... View Post
The long-awaited return of Novel!muse! Whooo!
Anyone wondering across my other blogs or sites every now and then may recall me whining and complaining about how fanfiction takes up all my time and I never write my novels, which is what I feel I should be putting most effort into, since they are the projects that have the potential to do such things like, you know, make me some money.Having just finished my Saints Row 2 fanfic, I've recently found myself strangely fanfic-free. It feels weird. Sure, I'm working on a rather long Mass ... View Post
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