In December, I turn my mind towards the coming year and what my resolutions will be. I’ve decided on my personal resolutions–there are four of them. They involve staying active, helping society, maintaining past resolutions, and being a better communicator. I want to make one or two regarding writing. Maybe three or four. Get through …
Just a little post about nothing. One shouldn’t tweet about nothing in particular… nor should they post about nothing in particular. And yet I am, anyway. Last night I turned in the 2nd round of edits on Owen’s Home and Garden. And other than that, I’ve been working on random paperwork associated with other projects. …
November was a crazy month for me (I say this with 3 days left). About half-way through the month, I realized that NaNoWriMo was, once again, just not going to happen. Work is either feast or famine, and after the first week in November it became feast. Although feast sounds like a good thing–it was …
Currently, I’m working on a YA novel. I think I’ve mentioned that here before. Maybe this is jumping the gun a small bit, because the novel hasn’t been contracted, but I’ve been thinking of new pen names. I think it could be damaging to the success of a YA book if the author also writes …
Today, I took a break form my official NaNoWriMo novel and wrote a prequel of sorts to it. I’m counting it in the word count! Call it a prologue, if you must, but I’m not giving up those 4.5k words for anything. I wrote a first person, present tense, slice of life with commentary story …
I’m struggling with my NaNoWriMo novel. And I don’t think it’s due to NaNoWriMo… it’s just the one thing I’m focused on and I’m really struggling. The first draft sucks. Most of my first drafts are bad, but this is really bad. And I don’t feel like I have time to fix it. This is …