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…
My latest flash fiction piece, Creepy Crawleys, has been selected for an upcoming anthology entitled NORTHERN HAUNTS, 100 Terrifying New England Tales from horror publisher Shroud Publishing
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…
Why can't we be like the Ancient Egyptians, who believed that all of our thoughts, reasoning and logic were done with our hearts, rather than our heads? What would our world be like? Would we all be much happier? [NWC]
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…