I have to get all my writing done before 12 noon these days. I'm working full time at the office at the moment (to earn the money I owe the tax authorities - now there's an incentive) and need to leave at 12.45pm somewhat acceptably dressed ( Read more... )

Listened to Holly Lisle's podcast all afternoon. Good writing advice, but she should know. I haven't read any of her novels, but there are a lot of them.

"If you're telling the truth it's gonna hurt," she said in episode 3, I think. That's one of the best quotes I've heard in a while.

Writers portal with loads and loads of all sorts of writing-related links. Perfect for those long boring hours at the office.

The workshop weekend kick-started a story I had been thinking about for some time. This week, I wrote a lot of new scenes and I've finally figured out what the main conflict is between my main characters. Since it's too hot to go to bed before 2 am anyway, I get a lot of writing done at night. Loads of typos as a result, but I'm really happy with ( Read more... )

The original plan for this month was to write at least a thousand words every day. I'm having trouble to make it beyond 250, though.

But 250 is not enough, damn it!

Barbara Bauer, an "agent" who is on SFWA Writer Beware's 20 Worst Agencies list, has managed to get the Absolute Write forums shut down.

So a number of people have proposed to link Barbara Bauer to the Writer Beware's list in order to make the link come up as the #1 search result in Google.

For more information see Teresa Nielsen Hayden's post ( Read more... )

I couldn't sleep until 5.30 in the morning, when I got up to write down the first paragraph of a story that had suddenly occurred to me. After that, I finally fell asleep ( Read more... )

Even though I am lost without my laptop and I love weblogs, I have always kept my old-fashioned paper journal. I write regularly in it, too, but not as regularly as I'd like. I'd like to write one entry every day.

That's why I did not think twice about joining embodiment. I hope that being part of a community which encourages its members to keep a paper ( Read more... )

I love this, but then I have always been fond of relaxation tapes since I got my first one courtesy of some random women's mag I bought on the school trip to Ireland.

And that is one looooong sentence.

Three years ago, I stumbled upon the NaNoWriMo website via a blog entry which I was reading. I had only just started my own blog back at Diaryland because I needed a place to share my musings on BtVS, and because I wanted to force myself to write regularly for a potential audience. When I read what NaNoWriMo was all about, I thought, I want to do ( Read more... )