It's NaNoWriMo season! Which means... mixtapes. Lots and lots of mixtapes. Chocolate, coffee, and mixtapes are what got me through NaNo last year. This one would be, I suppose, the third in a now-trilogy of Mixes For My Novel, along with That Light and Absolution. Good heavens ( Read more... )

So I'm writing this story. It's 1912. There's a girl. She's a librarian. She slays vampires. I was pretty sure that was what the story was about. Until, of course, I actually started writing it. The girl's still telling the story, but the centre, the catalyst, has changed. In a lot of ways, the story is really about Rupert Caruthers, former teenage ( Read more... )

The scene: NaNoWriMo 08. Yours truly attempts to write a truly ambitious novel about London, 1912, and a librarian who happens to be unusually talented at slaying vampires, which turns into a deeply messy fifth-of-a-draft, about Evangeline who can sense stories in the blood, Mr Caruthers the head librarian, who knows entirely too much about ( Read more... )