...there is a small exercise I do in writing longer fiction. I do not know how it would work for anyone else, or even whether it actually works for me-- that is, whether my books would be any different if I did not do it. It is the closest I come to the original Hemingway dictum, however, and it is the main reason I was so intrigued by his notion ( Read more... )

26 days to NaNoWriMo, that is.

Last year was a spectacular spectacular failure on my part to write anything for NaNoWriMo, and given that the only year I've ever won was the  year I started (and even then, didn't finish the novel), I'm wondering if it's worth it putting myself through that wringer again.

On the other hand, I'm kind of in a holding ( Read more... )

Because it's not like there's a new Dresden book to apply my fangirl attentions to *glare*.

( On Harry and the Fellowship of the Ring (Spoilers for Changes, obviously) )