I need inspiration. I love my NaNo story and I know exactly where it's going, but I just don't seem capable of moving at the speed I've moved in previous years. My concentration is nonexistent at the moment with far too much going on ( Read more... )

OK, so I haven't been around much. And, hey! I'm doing NaNo, so I'm REALLY not going to be around much now.

I'm NaNoing over at Rough Trade, so you can see my project there if you're interested.

Some writerly affirmation tonight.

"This is your world
You are the creator.
I have freedom on this canvas.
Believe that you can do it.
Cause you can do it."

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With perfect timing, this morning I found an article about picking character names in my news feed ( Read more... )

So I signed up for Get Your Words Out for this year. I figure if I can do 50,000 words in the month of November for two years in a row, I can handle their entry-level challenge of 150,000 words in a year. I'm only counting new words on fiction projects ( Read more... )

It's not done, but I hit the word count and I have a decent idea of where I'm going.

Now I sleep.

The longer I live out here in the middle of our private forest on the razor edge between the urban sprawl and the country, and the longer I telecommute full time, the more I start to feel socially inept. I react to things in certain ways, and only much later do I begin to wonder if maybe I committed some kind of faux pas. The thing is, I'm ( Read more... )

For  The Monkey Sock Meme by rinkafic

OK. I've been kinda MIA and I'm way behind on this thing. Work has been insane lately. Multiple members of management should not be allowed to go on vacation for two or more weeks at a time when the first round of 2013 budget proposals are due! Add that to hay fever, school-starting madness, the start of soccer, and ( Read more... )

So I hand-wrote an entire story yesterday. I had an idea in my head that wouldn't let go and I had paper at hand. So I wrote the whole thing out in spurts over the course of the day in between other spurts of activity with the Spawn. I had no idea how many words I was writing and it was freeing. I just wrote whatever number of words it took to get ( Read more... )

So I totally failed at Camp NaNo ( Read more... )