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NaNo Update: Week 3

Progress (word count or a general status update): Yeah, I’m not winning NaNo. I added maybe 2,000 words the entire week? I hit a point in every first draft where it becomes painfully obvious the story isn’t working (seriously, every. single. first. draft.), and I hit that point a bit earlier than normal this [...]

Friday Faves: December 2

I’m kicking off a new feature on the blog this week called Friday Faves. Basically just a round-up of my favorite things from the Internet and beyond. Blog posts, 365 pictures, links, hilarious YouTube videos, whatever else I’m dying to share. Sound fun? Let’s do this.

Favorite blog post I read this week: This [...]

Getting to THE END

I’m participating in my first Friday Five today because, well, I’ve been thinking about The End a lot lately. My WIP is technically in the revision stage, but in actuality I’m completely rewriting the last 20,000 words—trying to get to The End for the second time with this book. Here’s what I absolutely [...]

Writing is like my dog. No, really.

I recently had a writing epiphany, and like most of those that hit me, this one came out of left field when I was thinking about something else. In this case, it was thinking about my dog. His name is Peju.

Peju is very cute and very sweet but also very much a pain [...]

Walking on, walking on broken glass

So. Remember how I made a goal to have a finished draft of the new WIP completed by July 1? Ummm … yeah. About that.

I’m right around the halfway mark on it, and things have felt a bit off for a couple weeks now. I blamed fatigue caused by a hectic schedule, I [...]

Dealing with distraction

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When I first started writing my newest WIP, it was like magic. The WIP and I were completely on the same page, and it was some of the easiest writing I’ve ever done. The words flowed out of me, and all I had to do was will my fingers to keep up. [...]