This is the year I want everything to change. By the end of it, I want to be an urban dweller again, and in my first-very-own-all-by-myself-big-girl-apartment (I have always been a late bloomer), and I also want to be writing. Every day.

I haven't always been good at that, either.

So I made myself a writing LJ and I signed up for a year-long ( Read more... )

Yeah. That's pretty much what my writing was like these last four days. It's like, whoo! I got through the challenge of work + Black Friday + staying on target (albeit not on quota), now I'm just gonna unbutton the mental waistband on my brain and find myself a comfy spot on the couch ( Read more... )

Not gonna lie: working retail this Black Friday shopping weekend and still getting in my writing time was Not Easy. But I kinda knew it was going to be like that, so even though my word counts are down, I feel like just managing to keep on plugging away made it a challenge well-met ( Read more... )

As the month advances, I'm starting to see patterns developing in my writing practice. Like a maid in a turn-of-the-century English great house, I'm apparently allowed a day off each week - there's been a zero word count day three times now, once out of laziness, once out of forgetfulness, and once out of indulgence ( Read more... )

This past week was mostly rewriting, catching up with the story as I originally wrote it and making it match up with the plot as I now know it. Even so, it had its difficulties - and raised plenty of doubts. I have a mental image of how this story should feel, and oh boy, it is not that story. Yet ( Read more... )

The one called NaNoWriMo, I mean.

I'm not official, and not playing by the rules.

But I'm not a writer, either, not really, not until I figure out how to write, all the time, any time, whether I'm inspired or not. I've always struggled with this essential aspect: a writer writes. A dabbler, on the other hand ( Read more... )

A big thank you to everyone who participated in the poll last week! It was gratifying to see that there are still some seats filled out there in that darkened theater, and surprising to discover what you liked and what you want to see from me in the future! I'm going to leave the poll open for a little while longer in case there are any stragglers ( Read more... )

Some friends and I have been writing Halloween stories for each other. I'm actually pretty pleased with how mine turned out, so I thought I'd share it here with all of you! It doesn't really have a title, so just dive right on in ( Read more... )