Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with NaNoWriMo or its parent organization. I’ve just been a happy participant. That’s all. A friend of mine finished a million words through NaNoWriMo on…
Writer, Reader, Layabout
Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with NaNoWriMo or its parent organization. I’ve just been a happy participant. That’s all. A friend of mine finished a million words through NaNoWriMo on…
I know, we’re actually a few weeks into the New Year, but that’s OK. A writer is never early or late, he writes exactly when he means to. (No, that…
For years, I’ve pushed toward a specific story, a specific series, and I’ve been trying to line everything up just right. It’s been the plan since, oh, 2015. It’s built…
I somehow managed to completely evade everything in 2023. It was a weird year. The funny part was that I worked out in late 2022 the basics of scenes in…
Wow. Life really gets in the way sometimes. 2021 was a bear, with my father’s decline and reaching a point where he no longer recognized me. (It’s horrible for one’s…
The year has passed unbelievably quickly. NaNoWriMo 2021 is only a month away, and somehow, I’m already behind. I changed my preparation process in 2020, trying out a new act…
I hesitate to make public commitments. Failure stings. It’s easier to hedge. Here’s what I know I want to do, though. I want to do a full restructure on book…
I’m breaking the publication schedule to do a wrapup post. There are going to be a lot of them around this time, and a lot of them are going to…
Showing up and doing the work. Ten thousand hours to expertise. The first million words are bad. National Novel Writing Month, 50,000 words in 30 days. They’re kind of variants…
And I thought November took me by surprise! NaNoWriMo 2020 is over. I did well, and achieved my primary goal: a (more or less) complete zero draft of a third…