If you have a minute, swing by the Apocalypsies where I share advice on what to do in the event of a unicorn attack–this interview could save your life! And stop by the Enchanted Inkpot where I talk fantasy, writing, and evil clowns. Now on to the winners of the UNFAIRY TALE ARC giveaway: Erica [...]
Camp NaNo is finished and so is my new project. Well, kind of. It’s just a very rough draft right now with some scenes I already know need to be switched around, and with a couple characters that I’m still trying to figure out. But getting to the end of that draft always feels great. [...]
Well, Irene came and went without causing any serious damage in our area (thank goodness) but she did leave us without power for three days. The bad part was that I wasn’t able to get much work done during that time, but the good part was that without the temptations of the internet, I got [...]
[A quick reminder that my June/July Debut Giveaway ends on Sunday, so make sure to pop over and comment to be entered.] It’s been that kind of morning, so I’m not sure how well I can put sentences together, but here’s a quick update of what’s been going on this week: 1. Natural disasters! I [...]
It’s been a while since I did an update on my WIP, mostly because life has been so crazy the past few weeks that it’s been difficult for me to really settle into a project. But I finally have! Thanks in large part to Camp NaNoWriMo, I’m steadily working my way through a tween project [...]
If you’re out of the habit of writing regularly, it can seem impossible to get back into it. NaNo was the jump start I needed to go back to a writing schedule. But now that November is over, I’m afraid of losing that momentum. Coincidentally, one of my critique partners is also trying to get [...]
Yesterday, I hit 50,000 words and finished NaNo. Yay! I was relieved and excited. But I also felt like a little bit of a cheater. The previous two years, I followed the rules: I worked on one novel, from start to finish, throughout the whole month. But this year, I got to 26k words on [...]
This part of the month is when NaNo gets really hard. Because of Thanksgiving, there are even more distractions from writing than usual. So, not surprisingly, I’m behind in my word count. But I know I can catch up. Last night I asked my husband to try to guilt me into writing 3,000 words, and [...]
The second week of NaNoWriMo really is the hardest. In the first week you’re still running on the story ideas you had when you started the project. But by the second week, all those ideas are gone and you start thinking: “What is the point of this, anyway?” On Monday, I really hit a wall [...]
Normally when I’m working on a story I go through it chronologically, going back to tweak things, but still moving forward. Essentially, I write it from start to finish. But with my NaNoWriMo project this year, I’ve found myself skipping around quite a bit, writing snippets of scenes that will come later in the story. [...]
