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 »
Tag: writing
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 »
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 »
Hamster wheel to nowhere
After debating with myself long and hard, I finally gave in and won. For the past 2 years I’ve been a hamster in a cage, frantically spinning my wheels but going… 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 »
To dream of writing
So what does it mean if you dream you are writing? Because that is what happened to me. I woke up this morning with the memory of a long and productive… Read more »