NaNoWriMo Day 5! HUZZAH! How are you all doing? Have you made sure to enter the 5-page critique giveaway from me and Sarah J. Maas? If not, be sure to enter below. 🙂 Also, if you’re available at 4:00 PM Eastern Time today, Sarah J. Maas and I will be fighting a heated battle of […]
This is my third year doing NaNoWriMo, so maybe calling myself an “Old Timer” might be a bit of an exaggeration…but I DO feel qualified to give a few tips. First off, let’s cover the basics: To “win” NaNoWriMo, you need to type 50,000 words by the end of November. This isn’t a full book, […]
So, as promised for our next round of NaNoWriMo help and inspiration, I’m going to share some of my favorite books on writing/revising/inspiration/etc. And if you swing by Sarah’s blog today, she’ll also be posting with NaNo goodness. In other news, my dear, dear friend Meredith McCardle sold her book! I am so, so, SO happy […]
So NaNoWriMo is coming up. I am SUPER excited. Seriously, NaNo is my favorite time of year. For one, the energy is just so inspiring. I love logging in every day to update my word count. For two, there are so many new writers–it’s FANTASTIC! From people who have always wanted to write a book but […]
After breathing, eating, sleeping, and seeing ONLY my novella for a few weeks, I finally managed to cross the finish. Remember that draft I mentioned doing in my last post? Draft #3? Well, I was finally onto something there…but it still wasn’t right. It took me one more almost complete rewrite…but at least THAT draft was it. And […]
I have vanished from the blogosphere…and twitter is all but abandoned as well. Even emails are backed up so badly, it will take days to unknot and answer them all. That’s alright, though. Why? Because I had an epiphany recently thanks to a little old TV show I adore: Parks and Recreation. But allow me to […]
So, for those of you who actually found Friday’s post interesting, read on. For those of you who want me to get off my d*** soapbox already, then…you’ll probably want to stop reading now–‘cos it’s about to get REAL. 😉 Seriously, though, ever since I saw the film FOOD, INC., I’ve been on a crazy […]
So, this is one of those random topic posts that I’m writing because I’ve had enough people email me about it that it warrants its own post… But I warn you. I’m about to get on a soapbox and tell a looooooooooong story. It’s just that this is a topic very near and ear to my […]
It’s that day again–time for Sooz’s YA and MG Publishing Industry Lowdown. The general idea is that I share all the deals I know 0f in the young adult and middle grade publishing world each Friday. My source for deal news is Publishers Marketplace, which requires a paid subscription. As such I’m only sharing part […]
It’s that day again–time for Sooz’s YA and MG Publishing Industry Lowdown. The general idea is that I share all the deals I know 0f in the young adult and middle grade publishing world each Friday. My source for deal news is Publishers Marketplace, which requires a paid subscription. As such I’m only sharing part […]