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 had a great tip planned for you guys today, but it will wait for next week, because instead of reading what I have to say, you should read THIS piece from Sara Zarr. TweetYou might also like: NaNo Tip: the late and brief versionNaNo Productivity Tip: Dress for SuccessNaNo Productivity Tip: cut out the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
November is an interesting month. It seems that every year, despite my best intentions to write, like, a billion words, November becomes the busiest month of my life. And the sickest. I didn’t NaNoWriMo last year because I had a sinus infection that lasted over 3 weeks in November. So this year I went in [...]
I am beginning to think that November will be a pretty boring month for my blog. I have insane word count goals this month (I have a 4,000 word goal today, and that is just prep for my 10,000 word write-a-thon tomorrow), so my brain is so wrapped up in my actual writing that I [...]
