Best wishes to you all in 2013 ( Read more... )

It's been a crazy summer. How has everyone else's been? Good, I hope! I've done some traveling, some working, some running about, and of course... some writing.

Looking back at my last such status update, I see I was far too optimistic in my plans for a regular update schedule...

( Spliced Newsletter - Aug 2012 Edition )

Hey all, just posting to say, yes I am alive! I'm sure it doesn't look like it, but I have been my obsessive productive self and am still writing away, even if I have not been good with the whole regular updates on LJ thing.

( Spliced Newsletter - May 2012 Edition )

So, I've got a laptop and a loose framework of plot. It's November, and it's NaNoWriMo time again ( Read more... )

It's been rather busy around Chez Flighty lately, so sorry for my delayed well wishings. I hope everyone had a good holiday, and is looking forward to the fresh possibilities of the New Year.

I'm not really a Resolutions kind of girl, but I do have plans, if anyone would be interested to hear them. Either way, I can look back on this post a year ( Read more... )

Between the Lines by Jessica Page Morrell is easily my favorite book on writing. It's a snowy day here and I'm just sitting at home, so I thought I'd share an excerpt from the chapter on Pacing:

( Excerpt and my thoughts )

( Spliced babbling )

( Muse Plays Tug of War )

My brother sent me this questionnaire for fleshing out your characters. He found it off some site and converted it into a Word doc format for me. Download Doc version here. (Let me know if it doesn't work and I'll email it.)

It has some great questions on it to help you figure out your characters (especially the leads) really well. For example, I ( Read more... )

So I'm finally giving NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month for the uninitiated) a try this year. Since the premise is you have to write 50K words during the month of November... needless to say I won't be updating Spliced or Scotch during November (unless it was a chapter I had already written this month). I'm gonna try to finish Part 3 of ( Read more... )