Failing again. Failing better.
NaNoWriMo is right around the corner. Tomorrow’s Halloween, and the day after that–or that midnight, if you can’t stand the wait–you get cranking. 50,000 words in 30 days or 1,667 words per day. Are you ready? Don’t worry if you’re not. Don’t freak out. 48 hours is still plenty of time to sketch out a…
First off, I want to thank Myke Cole (Twitter) and Mur Lafferty (Twitter) for tweeting and re-tweeting links to yesterday’s post. As a consequence, it received a lot of views, and that’s always a great thing–to write something that people feel is worth reading. Myke and Mur have already given me so much great advice,…
I’ve been fairly busy lately. This is a good thing of course, but it has also come at a price. I haven’t been getting as much reading and writing done as I would like. And that has become increasingly bothersome to me. I feel like my creativity well is running a little dry. I need…
Sorry for the late post today. It was mega errand day, medical exams for me and picking up meds for my dog. And then there were the various odds and ends. Anyway, enough about my boring day. Back to the good stuff. First, Mur Lafferty (Twitter) put out another episode of her “I Should Be…
I’m embarrassed to admit that I’m a latecomer to Mur Lafferty’s (Twitter) podcast, “I Should Be Writing.” The latest episode has definitely made me a convert because it was chock full of goodness. First, Mur talked about the idea of writing falling off her to-do list. She said that writing had become so engrained in…