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 […]
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
In the early 1990s, George R.R. Martin (GRRM) called it quits with Hollywood and hunkered down at his home in New Mexico. He was tired of being told to cut his scripts down, and he wanted to write a sprawling epic that was not constrained by budgets or other meddlesome hands. He began to write his A Song of Ice
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
