Writeaholism
I wanted to use a different word, really I did. But nothing seemed to fit so well. Okay. I admit it. Maybe writeaholism isn’t in the dictionary, but it should be…. Read more »
Category: Writing
NaNoWriMo 2011
What is NaNoWriMo, you ask? National Novel Writing Month, otherwise known as November. I participated in NaNoWriMo in 2009 and ended up with more than 50,000 words of Gray Zone… Read more »
Three a day, every day
It is harder than it seems. The assignment is to write, in longhand, three pages a day, every day. The instructor doesn’t care what is written–words repeated over and over,… Read more »
Mac vs PC
I’ve always been a PC person. Maybe because my first computer was a PC, or maybe because as shortcuts are added for the technologically challenged user, control for the tech-savvy… Read more »
Through the magic of television…
Or at least, that’s what I feel I should say. I feel like I’m the host of a cooking show and I’ve just blended some cake batter, poured it into… Read more »
Crazy?
When I write, I have this strange procedure I have to follow. I wake up as early as I can, make a cup of coffee, and then go to my office… Read more »
Epiphany
As I wrote this morning I had a breakthrough. An epiphany. A shooting star of an idea. There had been a problem with my plot. I had not been able to figure… Read more »
Patience and thick skin needed
And so it begins again. That painful, tedious, humiliating process of trying to find an agent. With my first books I skipped this step, and went straight to the publishers. Since… Read more »
Part of the process
I woke up this morning (at 6:30 on a Sunday morning) with the realization that my last post, the first draft of the first scene, had been a little unfair. I… Read more »
DTA-2 begins
I wrote the opening scene of my next book, which will have the same characters as the Department of Temporal Adjustment. It will be a stand-alone book in that I… Read more »