NaNoWriMo 2011 – Day 14
Finally, this novel (or this novelist) is picking up steam! Woohoo! 17056 / 50000 (34.11%) :)
Category: My Writing Process
FINALLY
Lemme tell you, this has been a really crappy NaNo so far. Not for any reason except this: my discipline is broken. I have a plot I love, characters I love, and a setting I absolutely and completely love. I just have no butt-in-chair-ness. But today, I said I was…
Master post of my favorite NaNoWriMo tools
Some of my favorite writing links, just in time for NaNoWriMo: Outline Your Novel in 30 Minutes – This has a lot of useful questions to get to know your characters. I’ve used this several times. Sketch a Novel in an Hour – Very similar to the first, which it’s…
Productivity: or the lack thereof
What I’ve managed to do this weekend is depressing. Yes, so I put a new battery in my car (and in the process realized I had no antifreeze in there–yikes!). And I spent some time with my aunts. Did some organizing that desperately needed to be done. Finished reading another…
Novel excerpt from MAZE OF MOMENTS
To give myself some motivation to keep working on the revision, I’m posting an excerpt of the novel I’m currently revising (again) to try to get it ready to query agents. Any and all critiques are welcome. This is the first eight pages of my novel Maze of Moments, a…
Excuses, Excuses
I've been making a lot of those lately. "It's a three-day weekend, I don't want to work on the revision." "I have a migraine. I don't want to work on the revision." "I worked on plotting and world-building for a different project, I don't want to work on the revision too."…
Revision is a battlefield
And lately some of the casualties have been a couple of scenes I always liked and a character who, honestly, sort of annoys me. But fortunately I’ve discovered a few foxholes, like a couple of scenes with a new character I like more than I expected, or a way to rearrange the…
Better Writing Habits: Day 1
I’m a reader of Procrastinating Writers blog and Write It Sideways blog. For the month of January, both bloggers are producing a “Better Writing Habits” newsletter, and I’m subscribed to that. Today I’m posting my response to the first day of their series. What are your worst writing habits of…
Writing Goals for 2011
So I generally eschew New Year’s Resolutions (and I’ve recently become a fan of slightlyjillian’s method of taking stock and making resolutions on your birthday). But I also think there’s a lot of value in having a writing plan for the year, and October (when my birthday is) seems like…
NaNoWriMo 2010: Day 30
I validated last night, in the middle of the scene that is about to ramp our characters up into the climax of the novel. Chloe and Braxton aren’t talking to each other. As soon as Martin finds out about that, he won’t be talking to Chloe either. Fortunately, Jason and…
