AND WE’RE DONE!!! Or…almost. Today is the last day to write as much as you can and then validate your word counts! Don’t forget to validate–otherwise your word count isn’t…well, it isn’t counted and you don’t get labeled as a winner. For those of you with less than 50K, that is STILL AWESOME. I don’t […]
Oh. My. GOSH. We are so close to the end of NaNoWriMo. Can you taste it? I can taste it (or maybe that’s all the garlic mashed potatoes I gorged on yesterday for Thanksgiving. I could kill a vampire with this breath). Only 1 week left until THE END of NaNoWriMo 2012. The last week […]
Parts of this post were actually in a guest post I did for Y(A)? Cuz We Write!, but since a lot of what I said there applies to NaNoWriMo in droves, I thought I’d update the post and share. Because the thing is, every time I draft a new book, it’s like NaNoWriMo. Initially, I spew […]
WOOHOO! We are now HALWAY through NaNoWriMo! How are you all doing? I’m pleased with where things are going, though….I’ll be honest, I definitely lost a lot of steam this week. I got my revision letter for the novella, which makes that #1 priority over NaNo. BUT, thanks to these daily #NaNoWriMoBattles, I’m still hammering […]
You may or may not recall when, a few months back, I shared the first chapter of a first draft. It was from my NaNo book–the tentatively titled Purely Platonic…which I’ve lately been calling It’s In His Kiss (which is ALSO a stupid name). Anyway, I stumbled on the unfinished first draft last night, and […]
So…I thought I’d do something SO OUT OF CHARACTER that (if I were reading about myself in a novel) I’d declare the protagonist inconsistent and throw the book across the room. Yes, after seeing this amazingly inspirational post by Sara Zarr, I thought I’d… ::gulp:: …share an unrevised excerpt from my NaNo WIP. Why? Because I don’t […]
Yes, that’s right: I’m headed back in the City of Lights. This time, it’s a purely business, research-oriented trip. I’ve finished most of the first (And rough–oh it’s rough!) draft of Something Strange and Deadly book 2 (which is being tentatively titled A DARKNESS STRANGE AND LOVELY), and now it’s time to fill in all […]
When you first begin writing, you do it for various reasons… Maybe it’s an escape. Maybe it’s for entertainment. Maybe it’s because if you didn’t you would just die. Whatever the reason, it gets your butt into a chair and your fingers onto a keyboard. As you BICHOK away, you may or may not finish […]
I recently read (but failed to finish) an ARC for a book attracting a ton of hype. I won’t name the book, but I was really disappointed… I had high hopes for this upcoming young adult novel, but alas, my hopes were dashed! My main problem was that I could not connect to the story. […]
Finished! The first draft of my second book has reached The End. Wunderbar! Now it’s on to the massive revisions. And they will be massive, but I am so excited to start — I love editing and improving what I’ve already created. It’s like getting a diamond from the coal… Okay, terrible metaphor. How about […]