Dear Elders of Fiction, I hope you don’t mind me calling you that. It’s just that I’m still a baby, really, and you have been writing for a long time. I just wanted to say how much I like listening to you. Every year, I go to the LA Times Festival of Books and I […]
Category Archives: Writing Life
NaNoWriMo, once more with feeling
It’s that time of year again. I will once again be participating in National Novel Writing Month. I had seriously planned on last year being my last NaNo, at least for a while. It can be inconvenient, as someone who writes (er, sort of) full-time, to juggle my schedule and planning around to leave November […]
Because revisions
…were the only things that had any hope of getting done, that’s what I’m doing. I keep running into walls, particularly with Incognito. Every time I do, I think, oh, well, I’ll work on something else for a while and let that one stew. Which is fine–I think the path of least resistance is an […]
A to Z Challenge, Joyce Flavor
(So, when I said in my previous post that, later this week, I would explain the additional rules I would be following for the A to Z Challenge, I had not yet properly grasped that, uh, it’s Thursday. The lateness of the week is pretty severe at this point.) Because I like making life difficult […]
Last-minute Preparations
No blog post this week. I’m mentally gearing up for the A to Z Challenge. My initial idea sort of…fizzled on me. Which is to say, the posts I was getting were fit for nothing more than insomnia cures. So! Free fiction instead. It’s been a while since I’ve done anything for SSBB (and holy […]