Well so much for my plans to blog every day during NaNoWriMo … or even to write an “end of NaNoWriMo 2015” post. I wrote each day during November, and I “won” NaNoWriMo by reaching 50,000 words total on November 30. Now that the white-hot streak of writing every day is long over, I find that many of the details …
Yesterday was good; today was tougher. Yesterday, I wrote early in the morning, had lunch with my Mom, and then went straight to work on a project for a longstanding client. My leg pain revealed itself as just a cramp (though a persistent one); I haven’t been able to power walk yet, but I’ll be all right. Today, our “middle-aged” …
I’ve attempted National Novel Writing Month (NanoWriMo) a couple of times in the past (once unofficially), but I’m going all out this year. I normally dislike talking about word counts and “the writing process.” It’s just not me. But I figure if I’m going to blog about NaNo, I might as well go all the way! The last few days …
Happy Almost New Year! I’ve made some changes to my business. Enlighten Writing is now the home of my freelance writing and editing business. All of this blog’s posts currently exist at the Enlighten Writing site. So … what to do with this blog? Honestly, I’m not sure right now. The site that bears my name is now a showcase …
Although Twitter and Facebook dominate the blogging and sharing spaces in our lives, there is something pretty special about blog memes. A typical blog meme entails some kind of a list, then you “tag” your friends, ask them to make their own lists, tag more friends, and so on. I fondly remember a few blog “meme tags” when I was …
Just a note that Caitlin Lilly wrote a great blog post about standing apart and staying true to your beliefs. It’s kind of a springboard from my blog post about music. Check it out!
I was tagged a few weeks again by my friend and freelance writer Natalia Sylvester to participate in the “7 Links Challenge,” which highlights previous blog posts. And here is the fruit of my, er, labor. Away we go! 1. Most Beautiful Post: I really like the blog post from February 15, 2010 (my birthday) where I talk about re-starting …
I had an entire post written about the day 10 years ago, but I’ll save it for another time. This post at the The Brand Builder Blog says it well.
There is a subset of fantasy literature called Big Fat Fantasy (BFF). Or door-stoppers … because they look like this. My first foray into BFF territory was Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. I really enjoyed that series until Jordan created way too many plot, sub-plot, sub-sub-plot, and sub-sub-sub plot threads. I gave up on that series in 2000. I …
I’m sorry to see the end of Borders. When I lived in Oklahoma, I looked forward to my bi-weekly Atomik Pop-and-Borders trip. I bought tons of books, drank a lot of hot chai, and learned so much (as I said, I bought a lot of books there). When I moved to Portland, I shopped more often at Powells, but I …
I have a guest post up at Natalia Sylvester‘s blog about the long, sometimes-humorous, sometimes-frustrating journey of my current Work in Progress, a galaxy-spinning novel that combines science fiction, mythology, and anything else rattling around inside my brain. I’m not big on setting up counters on word counts or progress meters or anything like that. But at the end of …
