...here I am, a week later than intended. Oops? You all know how bad it can get during NaNoWriMo. I suddenly looked at my calendar while I was filling in my bullet journal and went "...oh. Right. Blog posts. Oops." For the first 4 days of November, I was either entirely focused on writing, or … Continue reading True to Form…
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So here we are, Wrimos. It's Hallowe'en (happy holiday! I'm probably at work while you read this, lol) and we are mere hours away from the first of November and the beginning of the crazy journey that is the National Novel Writing Month. Are you ready? Have you prepared enough, have your girded your pants … Continue reading NANOWRIMO IS COMING: The Final Days
So this is actually a piece from my first residency in grad school, so it's just shy of four years old at this point. I haven't edited it at all (save for one word I added in just before posting it, because I'm not sure why it wasn't there to begin with) and so I … Continue reading NANO FICTION FRIDAY: The War Veteran and the Child
Alas, you should be getting a book review today. I've even started the book I'm supposed to be reviewing. But for shame, I have not finished it. I've got this book and then one more, which I'm hoping to review both of early in November. After that, I'll be taking the month off from reviews … Continue reading Filler Post
Of course, that title isn't to insinuate that once you write something during November, you can never take it back. (Gods forbid, because I can't imagine any of my stories staying there. Ugh.) But no, this is one of the other "rules" of NaNoWriMo that I've found people have the hardest time doing: not editing. … Continue reading NANOWRIMO IS COMING: Written in Stone
So I've been working on a little bit of an idea for a new project--not my NaNo project, but a more long-term slow-build one--and I've been in need of a setting. Since we all know how well I do with planning, I'm going to see if I can take the few threads I've come up … Continue reading NANO FICTION FRIDAY: Paint the Picture
I received a copy of this book through NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. So just a couple weeks ago, I read book one in this series, THE SIX TRAIN TO WISCONSIN, and I absolutely loved it. I was excited to get into the next book and see how things started to resolve and grow … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW: HIGHWAY 13 TO MANHATTAN by Kourtney Heintz
So now that we've talking about building a character, let's chat a little about your setting. There's really two pieces to this that I've seen: the world you've built, and how you introduce that world to your readers. These are two of the places that I've struggled the most in my writing, so a lot … Continue reading NANOWRIMO IS COMING: Wait, Where Are We?
So let's take the character from Monday's adventure, and start throwing him into some mess, shall we? You'll see as I start to write this how quickly the rest of the world begins to form around him, how setting and character and plot start to get all jumbled up together. I've tried to keep this … Continue reading NANO FICTION FRIDAY: Dana Cantrell
Laura and I have seen each other around social media for a while now (and she's proven to be an excellent critique partner; if ever I write more of Rem and Sam's romance, it'll be thanks to her) so when she started talking about this book, I was incredibly excited to read it. Not just … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW: SIGNS OF ATTRACTION by Laura Brown
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