Project: Radium Town, the Steampunk Weird West adventure set in my hometown of Claremore, Oklahoma at the dawn of statehood and featuring Will Rogers and Tom Mix. Writing stage: First Draft Today’s Word Count: 1,270 Total Word Count: 1,270 What happened: Right now I’m just writing out a detailed synopsis, then I’ll Read more…
Project: Radium Town, the Steampunk Weird West adventure set in my hometown of Claremore, Oklahoma at the dawn of statehood and starring Will Rogers. Writing stage: Research, world building and plotting. What got done: Yesterday, nada, which was why I didn’t post an update. Matt and I spent the bulk Read more…
It’s the first day of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo, for short)! For the first time in seven years, I’m not starting out November 1st in a mad rush to get words on the screen, which is simultaneously a relief and a little sad-making. I’m kind of envious of those who are taking part in it this year, especially today. Today, it’s all about enthusiasm and possibility. Today, the words flow freely and it’s all you can do to type (or scribble in your notebook) fast enough to keep up with all of the ideas in your head. Today, you’re just starting your trek up Everest, and there is no doubt in your mind that you’ll conquer the mountain, and it’s all excitement and adrenaline and not at all a struggle or a drudgery. Enjoy this day, my little Nano-padawans.
I want to share a piece of advice for when that uphill climb becomes a bit steeper and less of a joy. (more…)
I’ve been dithering back and forth on this decision, but I think it’s time to pick one, stick with it, and make it official: for the first time since 2006, I’ll be bowing out of NaNoWriMo this year. It’s a tough decision, because I always look forward to ‘WriMo. It’s Read more…
…or, “Where the *@%! Has Jean Been?!” November was a heck of a month, y’all. As if NaNoWriMo wasn’t enough to keep me busy, about a week and a half into that my freelance business started to pick back up, and before I knew it I had more clients and Read more…
I’m starting out the second week of NaNoWriMo about 3,000 words short of where I should be. I was doing great for the first three days, even had a bit of a word cushion built up, but then I decided to take Friday off from writing, since it was already Read more…
I’ve been having some success lately using the Pomodoro technique to get things done (when I remember to use it, that is). If you don’t know what the Pomodoro technique is, it’s basically just using a kitchen timer to help you stay on task and increase your productivity. Set the Read more…
Today kicks off the awesome insanity known as National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo for short), during which millions of brave souls the world over will attempt to write at least 50,000 words of a novel by month’s end. If you’ve been following along here, then you know I had wanted Read more…
This week I’m hosting my last IWU blog tour guest until NaNoWriMo is out of the way. As appropriate for Halloween, my guest this week is indie horror novelist Todd Russell, author of Fresh Flesh, the first entry in his Fresh series.
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It’s only two days until October, and that means I only have 33 more days to prepare for this year’s NaNoWriMo. Of course, if I don’t finish Dominion in time, this will be moot, which is a distinct possibility what with the way I seem to be writing this novel Read more…