It’s that time of year again. NaNoWriMo. NaNo. WriMo. A word that strikes fear and excitement into the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of writers and authors. A time when writers from all around the world put themselves through the torture of writing out 50,000 words for a novel. It can be a …
Every year, for about 26-29 days, NaNoWriMo completely takes over my life. Actually, it’s more than that, because I usually start making my plans for NaNoWriMo way before November hits. Sometime around July or August I start brainstorming ideas, then I use September and October to try to do any research that I might need …
Okay, if you’ve been keeping up with me on Twitter (not that I’m all that fast on Twitter, mind you. I tweet with the speed of a giant turtle stuck upside down in molasses) you probably came across my tweets for #Pit2Pub. To be honest, I didn’t think I’d be able to participate. I found …
I have always been scared of the dark. In fact, there’s an interaction between Szandor and Celyna based on an important conversation between me and my uncle. He asked why I wasn’t sleeping, and I admitted to him I was scared of the dark. “But your room is so small, nothing can fit in here …
It goes without saying… I love November. (Okay, so it might go without saying, but it doesn’t go without typing, apparently). NaNoWrimo have had a love-hate relationship for eight years now. In fact, most of the items on my Works in Progress page came from NaNoWriMo. It starts in September every year, I get an …
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I can pinpoint the moment I decided that I wanted to become a writer. I was watching the movie Romancing the Stone on VHS… Yea – I’m that old. Anyway, so this movie starts, and it’s the weirdest western story being narrated by a lady. I was actually annoyed at first because you couldn’t really …
