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Category Archives: NaNoWriMo
Publication announcement! and a birthday party! and the NaNoPanel!
Sunday 1 July was the first anniversary of this blog. Coincidentally, it’s also the birthday of my patron saint, George Sand. I would have done a nice thoughtful backward-glance post, except that I was caught up in the press of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, NaNoWriMo, Writing
Tagged Erika and the Vampire, Fantasy, NaNoWriMo, publication, Writing
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Genre Trouble: Twilight and the New Vampire Story
The good news about being a professional writer is that all sorts of oddball things become tax deductible: book purchases (market research), movie tickets (review essays), office supplies, the new computer (equipment). The bad news: I have to read books … Continue reading
Summer NaNo: Hold fast the dream (or here comes the hard part)
Haven’t written. Haven’t written in two days, no, three. The reasons are manifold, but they all come down to the same thing: I haven’t closed the door on the hurricane of worries that calls itself Real Life. I don’t have … Continue reading
Summer NaNo: A certain slant of light
It’s a perfect summer evening here, with the light just fading to red-gold and a breeze stirring the topmost tree-tops as the birds twitter in the branches. (No, unfortunately I’m not ornithologist enough to tell you what kind, but they … Continue reading
Summer NaNo: Novel Cook Pot, installment 1
Once you’re a writer, everything is a writing prompt. This summer I’m going to do a NaNo novel. The formal challenge is to do a plot skeleton and play it in counterpoint against the character interview. The responses to the … Continue reading
Summer NaNo: In the Good Ole Summertime (Unconventional Beach Books)
In the good ole summertime… … It’s time to write a novel. That, and to lie around in hammocks reading huge books. My notion of a beach read is somewhat different from the usual: it’s books that require large stretches … Continue reading
Genre Trouble: Everybody is subcultural (Literary fiction is a genre too)
Until I started working with the National Novel Writing Month local community in the Twin Cities, my experience with peer-organized writing groups (as opposed to professionally led classes) had been nearly uniformly negative. Now, I feel as if I’ve come … Continue reading
Posted in NaNoWriMo, Writing
Tagged Fantasy, Genre trouble, NaNoWriMo, The Reincarnations of Miss Anne
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