I read a lot of advice floating around the internet and twitterverse and the like, some from awesomely published authors and some from readers and a lot of it makes sense.
But some of it – very specific parts of it – piss me off to no end, especially since they are so absolute about it. [...]
One of the most basic things I didn’t realize when I started writing was how to deal with / convert the word count of my manuscript. In the past week, I’ve gotten a few questions about it (I’m assuming because NaNo is full force) so I figured I’d answer it here.
I understand it can differ [...]
With NanoWriMo upon us, I always feel the need to explain my process, because it’s pretty different (read: insane) than most of what I’d read about when I first started writing – you know, the, this is how you should do it, posts.
I’ve always been contrary. And maybe my insanity will help comfort a few [...]
“Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.” – Ambrose Bierce
SJ Day (aka Sylvia Day) had a great post up on Murder She Writes a couple of weeks ago about how changing routines can sometimes screw up a creative process. I chimed in my agreement, mentioning that for the past year or so, I’d had [...]
Cam’s books is done – it’s the one due out after the third book in the SEAL trilogy, tentatively titled, Don’t Look Back. Although I hesitate to use the word done, because that seems…wrong. I can’t say the first draft is done because it’s really not a first draft. The first pass, maybe? The one that I [...]
So my mom calls me yesterday and is all like, Did you see that a SEAL team rescued that captain?
I tell her that I’ve been following all of this forever at this point and say yes.
Then she’s like, you know, I was washing dishes when I heard it and I stopped to watch the story. [...]
So, Zoo has tonsillitis and I’m hoping that the antibiotics work so he doesn’t have to have them out. Mainly because he’s telling me he won’t have them out until after his fishing trip at the end of April.
I’m guessing he doesn’t realize that he’s not going to have much of a choice.
So I’ve got that [...]
Aries horoscope for the week of March 26th:
Don’t you think it’s time you toned down your manic aspirations? Aren’t you curious about the sweet, sensitive success that could be yours if only you got really calm and peaceful? Wouldn’t it be interesting to explore the more manageable opportunities that might become available by accepting your [...]
I found this over on Genreality – it’s author Elizabeth Gilbert (author of Eat, Love, Pray) and she’s giving a lecture on a new way to think about creativity. I think it’s a fascinating lecture for anyone, but especially for anyone who’s in any kind of creative field.
You know, I’ve often thought about the [...]
So we’ve got this new GPS for the car and it’s been great. Well, except for the time when it didn’t realize that the new road was built and showed our car off-road and the voice was yelling, recalculating – you are not on the road. You are in the wrong place – recalculating!
But I [...]
