Ah, National Novel Writing Month. The crazy hours. The insane amounts of coffee. The irresponsible snacking. Good times! About NaNoWriMo If you're new to the game: From http://www.nanowrimo.org/ National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by…
I'm pulling a Doctor Houseman (of Dirty Dancing fame) and putting anything non-NaNo related in the corner. NaNoWriMo starts in 9 days and I'm scrambling to finish my outline. I foolishly had grand plans to continue working on my shorter pieces while I do NaNo. Yeah – I think I was a little delusional when…
I'm starting to hear my main character's voice in my head while I write. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?! I can tell I'm deep into the story now, because I tend to think almost hyperactively, type furiously and flit around the house doing this and that and so-many-different-things-all-at-the-same-time. Phew! Either way,…
After last night's 11pm coffee fix, I almost couldn't turn my brain off, and ended up writing for another 3 hours. I suppose I shouldn't complain – there was a time where words failed to come to me at all, so really the inconvenience of having to get out of bed at 3am, turn the…
After brainstorming on 4 different short story ideas over the past week, I finally settled on one for my entry for the Candlelight Anthology. t took me 2 days and approx. 6 pages of handwritten notes to flesh out the plot and piece it together so it made sense, but having finally decided that I…
I never thought I would say this – but I think I am finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. No, I'm not dying! I think I am finally nearing the end of my book outline! I sort of did things backwards – or twisted – or all a-flutter. But…