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NaNoWriMo GUEST POST: A Plotter's Guide to Pantsing
Delighted to announce my first NaNo guest poster today: romance author and writer of the super-popular blog Pintester.com, Sonja Foust. (Pintester is hilarious but NSFW.) Sonja gave me permission to...
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Fridaydream: eight strange rituals of productive writers.
Love this list of strange writing rituals. I'm definitely going to try #8 this month. (Okay, probably not. I am a terrible lightweight.)Which one is your favorite? Any to add?Also, for the duration of...
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Monday morning thought.
"It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." -- E.L. Doctorow(via @chrisbaty on Twitter)
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The 20 minute win.
The wonderful Jessica Brockmole sent me this a few days ago: The 20 Minute Win. Barbara O'Neal argues that if you can carve out a twenty-minute window in which to write, and guard that twenty minutes...
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NaNoWriMo GUEST POST: A head start on a great story.
All: I'm delighted to share another guest post with you today, this one from frequent commenter Cathy C. Hall, who blogs at http://cathychall.wordpress.com/. In her post, Cathy argues that you should...
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Thursday cop-out: two giant round ups of NaNo advice.
I'm writing this a couple of days early, as I often do my posts, and agonizing over the US election details even though it's hours before we'll know anything. (I hope it's only hours, and not 2000...
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Friday check-in; abstainers and moderators, Write or Die
REMINDER: today is the last day to enter the critique contest. Get over there and post a comment, if you haven't already done so! How did you guys do this week? I'm embarrassed to admit that I fell off...
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Monday morning thought.
"When you're stuck, those aren't the worst parts, those are the best parts - they're your chance to be creative."-Po Bronson
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NaNoWriMo GUEST POST: The terrible twos
All, I'm very pleased to bring you a guest post today from my client Jessica Brockmole, who is a NaNoWriMo veteran and one of the best "NaNo cheerleaders" I know. Her debut novel LETTERS FROM SKYE will...
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Critique contest: announcing the WINNER!
At long last, I'm delighted to announce a winner from the Critique Contest! We had 23 entries altogether, so I plugged that into the Random Number Generator and here was the result: Lucky number 13 was...
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NaNoWriMo GUEST POST: Don't get derailed!
I'm delighted to post another fantastic guest post in honor of NaNoWriMo. Kara Bietz writes contemporary YA fiction from her home in North Georgia. Kara does not miss her job as a preschool teacher,...
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Fridaydream: armchair travel
Where have you always wished you could visit, but haven't (yet)?This is a favorite website of mine-- it's also, I think, a really charming example of how efficiently one can craft a character...
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Monday morning thought.
is over here.I'm just back from a long weekend trip. How are all of you?
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Nicholas Carr and Michael Clarke: how hardcovers are like vinyl records
Two smart and, I think, pretty innovative arguments for how book publishers can learn from the music industry-- specifically from how indie artists appeal to vinyl fans. This surprised me: 2012 is on...
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NaNoWriMo: because only an animated gif will do sometimes
You guys will like this.Title to Come
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American readers; the rest of you, hope you're having a pleasant Thursday.I'll see you back here on Monday. Get lots of writing done!
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Monday morning thought.
" I can always tell when you’re reading somewhere in the house, my mother used to say. There’s a special silence, a reading silence. "--Francis Spufford, The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading...
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NaNoWriMo GUEST POST: one step at a time.
All, I'm pleased to share another guest post from my client Jessica Brockmole, who is a NaNoWriMo veteran and one of the best "NaNo cheerleaders" I know. Her debut novel LETTERS FROM SKYE will be...
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Updated list of my sales.
All,This won't be of interest to everyone, but because we are in the midst of a major overhaul of the main agency website, my list of sales has not been updated there in some time, with the result that...
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Plot bank.
I'm running around today (and posting very late!) but this looks handy:http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/plot-bank-for-writers_b61681Has anyone ever made use of this kind of thing? What's your...
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