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That Weird Feeling That It’s Real…
I guess sometimes the little moments are the big moments. I had the craziest I’m-really-a-writer moment the other day.
In the midst of a phase of re-reading a bunch of old favorites, I thought, “Gee, I’d really like to read this one story again.” The story was the one that I had written for GothNo last [...]
Valentine’s Day Poems
I found a couple of old Valentine’s poems from 10 years ago, and posted them over at AC: Unopened Valentine and Unaddressed Valentine.
Then the muse started to run with the idea, and I came up with two more, and a very short story, all related: Valentine, Awaited; Valentine, Received; and The Valentine. Also a haiku [...]
Book Review: Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
Zen in the Art of Writing made me want to write. I know that sounds like very little; we writers tend to always want to write.
It was exquisite torture, the desire to continue reading Ray Bradbury’s wonderful essays at constant war with the desire to set down the book and create.
Zen in the Art of [...]
NaNoWriMo 2009: Motivation and Donation
I picked up Ray Bradbury’s Zen in the Art of Writing (review to come, probably) this past November, when our NaNo group made the distracting choice of holding our meetings in bookstores.
I read it exuberantly, excitedly, and to the detriment of my writing. Thus, it was set aside, and now, I have it back.
Besides the [...]
NaNoWriMo 2009: Pennies for NaNo
Okay, so I have decided that being co-ML means that it is defintely not too early to start thinking about NaNo 2009.
My first thought about my region’s collective adventure is that we need to raise more money next year than we did this year. (So far this year we’re at $175 … not bad, but [...]
NaNoWriMo 2008: Day 2
Last night, I reached my “traditional” goal for this weekend – “traditional” assuming the NaNo-standard of 1,667 words per day. Nice first day, I was pleased.
My story is moving along fairly well for not being outlined, but of course I am still at the beginning.
The honey is noveling along again this year. He has already [...]
NaNoWriMo 2008 has arrived!
Hooray, it’s time to begin noveling! November is here, and with it the insane joy of NaNo writing, knowing you’re noveling along with thousands of other writers across the world.
Thank goodness for the first being a Saturday! Today’s word count is done, but now I must get on to getting ahead, for slow days are [...]
GothNoWriMo 2008: Complete
I did it! 20,000 words of Gothic novella, complete and ready to be ignored until at least December, maybe January. Next up: NaNoWriMo in just a few more days.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Almost Time to Change Your Clocks
For those in daylight savings time areas, clock changes are Novemeber 4th.
You could sleep in, but if you’re looking for something different to do with your “extra hour” of found time – or anytime you have found time – check out my article Daylight Savings: 5 Things to Do with Your Extra Hour.
Countdown to NaNo: 8 days to go
Okay. I am really trying to get an outline down. It’s tough. I’d rather see it go where it goes. Still, for the pressure of NaNo and trying to do so much in such a short time, I will probably be glad to have it.
I have basic overviews on half of my important characters. I [...]
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