It’s the beginning of November, and as a writer it’s my duty to have advice for folks doing NaNoWriMo, even though it’s been running for years and people have been giving advice about it all this time. I suggest failing at NaNoWriMo. There are lots of other authors there, too. Check it out.
It’s day six of NaNoWriMo. I said I was going to give it a try this year because it’s been hard to get back into the swing of things after a month without any progress while I was in Portugal. Words written so far this month: 1900. Truthfully, I don’t give a shit about goals…
Portugal posts have been delayed, obviously, because I got sick as soon as I got back to Seattle. Also, our shitty internet means that the online backup issues we had while we were away are taking forever to resolve. Soon, though. Soon. Additionally, it looks as though I’m going to jump on the NaNoWriMo bandwagon…
I wasn’t going to blog about NaNoWriMo (which should be called InNoWriMo) again this year, but I’m a writer and it turns out to be one of the job requirements. My main blog (if you’re reading this on LJ or DW) has a search function so you can check out actual advice from earlier years,…
But this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t! Go to town, have fun with it, and if it seems that 50K is a lot of words to write in a month, use this as an opportunity to stretch your boundaries. Some writers do that much in a week, and if you want to be more prolific, you…
It’s almost November so I thought I’d post a little something about NaNoWriMo. First of all, why does this happen every year in November? It seems like such a bad choice, what with Turkey Day falling near the end (for U.S. residents) when it can be tough to keep to the daily grind, not to…
I’m not doing it. I never do it. Some people actually seem offended when I say that, but NaNoWriMo doesn’t make sense for me. The daily wordcount isn’t that high and it’s what I ought to be doing anyway, right? Every month, not just November. This isn’t a condemnation of the event itself. If you…
I won’t be taking part. I’m still editing Man Bites World (finished one of the difficult parts today) and I’ll have galleys for Game of Cages soon. After that, it’s new project time, so I’ll have brainstorming and outlining to do. I may not write another word of rough draft until Christmas. However, even if…
Every whodunnit mystery has two narratives. The first is the crime at the center of the story. How the murder was planned and carried out. The history between killer and victim. The red herring clues that point to innocent parties, and the backstory that makes those parties credible suspects. And so on. All of that…
As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m not going to hit my NaNoWriMo goal. No big deal; I was just using it as a goad to pick up momentum with ONE MAN, my current WIP which has stalled. It was a new thing for me, and it didn’t work. What I realized on Wednesday…