*** When I was young (and by that I mean in middle school) and this whole notion and practice of writing novel-length original stories was still brand new to me, I found myself utterly fascinated with the entire process. I found it startling that I could begin a page having no idea what would follow, and yet after a few sentences were jotted down based on my vague idea of what should happen next, the story poured out with very little effort on my part. That didn't mean it was always entirely ... View Post
The Writing Journal
Earlier this week I suddenly had an idea for both my young adult fantasy novel and my sci-fi novel, but hesitated to write them in my usual "idea notebook". Although the idea notebook has worked very well in the past to preserve ideas before they vanish, it does become hard to look up those ideas later on when there is no order to them and no good way to organize them. I have also started typing ideas in various word documents on my laptop, and separating them according to story, but for some ... View Post
What I Learned from my Writer's Digest Workshop…
In case some of you weren't aware, I recently enrolled in a Writer's Digest online workshop. It began October 4th and ended December 27th of 2012. It was entitled "12 Weeks to a First Draft", and consisted of 12 assignments, each of 2- 2500 words, which were submitted weekly for individual critique by the instructor, a published career author or a literary agent. In my case the instructor was Stephen Mertz, who has published over 30 books in his ... 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
NaNo Day 2: I feel like a REAL WRITER!!
Word Count Day One: 2834Word Count Day Two: 819The important thing to remember here is that I'm still ahead of schedule, and I've stuck with it for two days, which yes, is progress. :) I'll take anything I can get right now! I stole my younger sister's desk while she's away at college and made myself a little NaNo headquarters in the corner of our bedroom. It's small and unobtrusive, but gives me a place to put the laptop that's not on ... View Post
Dialogue Tags…. Detail or Distraction?
So obviously it wasn't REALLY the Return of Me last time I wrote in here.But it is now. ;)I am being forced to find another job and it's making me cranky and upset. But, it also made me decide to stop F-ing around and actually get to REAL WORK on this novel thing. If you've been keeping up with this journal, you are probably shaking your head and laughing right now. I know. How many times have I said this, right?Well. I enrolled in "12 Weeks to a ... View Post
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