I’m a couple days late with my tip this week. Seems that packing an entire house, preparing to launch a business, and baking up a storm for a charity dessert auction (not to mention wrangling Baby Caveman) can take a lot of time. Who knew? This week’s tip is a short one: put away the [...]
As promised, I’m back today to tell you the things about NaNoWriMo I love, despite my choice to fail this year. So, in wonderful listy form, here I go: 1) It forces you to actually finish. Okay, so obviously that is not true. But the idea is still there. NaNoWriMo is great for the writer [...]
We’re a week into NaNoWriMo, and last night I deleted my words. Every. Single. One. Then I opened up a new file and started again. Did I just ruin my chances of getting 50,000 words this month? Well, never say never, but yeah, I probably did. And I am totally okay with that. You [...]
I’m doing NaNoWriMo this year. This is no surprise to anyone who’s read my blog the last few weeks. It’s funny though, once I stated my interest in writing a book in one month, ALL THE THINGS started piling up for November. Geek Husband and I have been looking to move for some time now, [...]
It’s November! NaNoWriMo time! Woo-hoo! My tip is a day late this week because I didn’t want to overshadow my contest winner post yesterday, but it’s here now and it’s a good one. NaNo Productivity Tip: Dress for Success One of the fun parts of being a writer is the fact that you can do [...]
NaNoWriMo countdown is at one week! Do you have your plan of action in place? Your outline started? Good. This week I’m going to talk about something that will kill your plan of writing a novel in a month before you even get started. That’s right, I’m talking about that shiny thing that’s distracting you [...]
This morning, I had a long-overdue email conversation with a bloggy friend. We talked about life and good times and writing and publishing. It really got me thinking…and then this post was born: On Chasing the Dream You start with a little inkling of a dream. I want to write a book, you tell yourself. [...]
Two weeks from tomorrow, thousands of crazy totally sane, for sure, writers will start a month-long quest to write the next great frantic novel. (For the uninitiated, check out NaNoWriMo.org to learn what the heck I’m talking about.) What are you doing to prepare for this year’s Month of Literary Abandon? From now until the [...]
Remember how I took the month of May off from writing? Well, I didn’t quite make it the whole month. The time I took away from Incubus helped me realize something: I just wasn’t enjoying writing anymore. I know, I know, writing isn’t always sunshine and daisies, but it should not be unpleasant ALL. THE. TIME. [...]
I have discovered something in the last couple months: I am not a great beta reader. It’s not that I don’t enjoy beta reading, because I love to do it. And I try to be a good reader for my buddies. The problem is I am just too easy to please. It doesn’t take much [...]
