A sample of my NaNoWriMo project
Yesterday, my good friend and fellow writer Becke Martin linked me over to Jenny Crusie's blog. Jenny posted a sample of her NaNoWriMo work in progress and I thought, "I can do that, too." Hers was brilliant. Mine is . . . well, 350 more words. Enjoy."So there you are," she muttered. "It's about time.""Not my fault. Writer put in 45,000 words of back story." "Dude, you’re the hero! Instead of meandering across the co

30 Days Hath November
Gabriella Edwards asked me, "Did I miss a blog entry?"No, Gabriella. No, you didn't.After chunking out my most recent novel draft, I did a leisurely bit of editing, submitted my RWA PRO materials (and--drumroll, please!--my pin is on its way) and took a vacation. A real vacation with grown-ups and hotels and bars and boat tours and art museums.What I did not do is write. I deliberately chose not to draft diddly for the entire month of October as part of the Let-Your-Puir-Wee-Brain-Rest-Before-NaNo Plan.National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a decade-old

I did it.
Here's what I did:I wrote a book. Another book. Sort of.I wrote 80,792 words (I'm counting "The End") on a novel that has had two false starts and, ahem, some history (see my previous blog post).I had promised myself (and you, my faithful blog readers) I would write the rough draft (a.k.a. CrapDraft) in 14 days. It did, in fact, take me 18 days.I did not do the whole "write ten minutes while you're waiting for the teakettle to boil" business. If I didn't have a decent block of time to write in (at least 2 hours) I didn't start. I didn't wake up early (well, once I did and decided that was for the birds). I didn't stay up late.I d

Binging (or Purging?)
I'm at it again: I'm binging on writing.As part of the RWA's Fantasy, Futuristic and Paranormal chapter's 60 Days to PRO (RWA status) program I've signed onto Candace Havens's Fast Draft loop. In the next 14 days I will pound out a rough-and-dirty draft of the novel I've started, stopped an