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 […]
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 […]
Confession: I love 80s pop. Like, LOVE 80s pop. If you want to guarantee that I get up and dance like an idiot, then put on the Pet Shop Boys. In fact, 80s music has been the inspiration behind myNaNo WIP, Purely Platonic. There’s just SO MUCH ANGST to be had from those 80s synthesizers, […]
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 […]
So, yesterday marked the beginning of 2011’s NaNoWriMo. I participated (and won) last year. Funnily enough, I wrote 50,000+ words in Screechers, and then threw the whole thing away a few months later and started completely, 100%, not-a-single-word-saved over. I love me some NaNoWriMo, guys. The camaraderie, the sense of achievement at the end, and […]