I'll be the first to admit that I have a pretty terrible concept of time. I talked at length in this post about how having a poor sense of time can be damaging to your self-worth and harmful to your productivity. To combat those issues and more, this year I started a...
I've never really been on board with selfies. If you've read my adaptation of The Green Bird, you know there's a running gag with a narcissistic character doing the period equivalent version of a selfie. When my cousins were teens and they used to post hundreds and...
I signed up for NaNoWriMo and LOST... and I mean big time didn't write a single word BLEW IT for four years straight. I came in with such good intentions and then completely failed to show up and get down to writing. When I won for the first time in 2007 (and I have...
Ah, the end of November. When young woman's fancy turns to... spreadsheets! I'm not joking. I actually started getting this gleam in my eye as I realized the month was coming to an end. I was just positively itching to start working on them. My crippling addiction to...
I don't usually share my To Do list because I assume no one cares but I'm in the weird position where I owe a lot of people various things and rather than try to email everyone an update, it seems simpler to just do one big pots of where I am right now and when you...
I have a special relationship with 30,000 words. Before that point, it's a long slog, plodding uphill with a story that feels like dead weight hanging over my shoulders. But once I hit 30 large, I reach what I call the "Get this novel out of my freaking face" stage...
A few years ago, I was obsessed with the question: What would happen if Frosty's magic hat had been put atop something other than a snowman? What if you put it on a coat rack? Would that come to life? I started writing a play about it with a very clear idea of who...
So, remember how I told you I had a Class Two sprain on my ankle? Well, we later found out it was a Class Four sprain. Then I dropped three large folding tables on my toe on the same foot at our NaNoWriMo kick-off party. When I went to get that x-rayed, the doctor was...
Give yourself permission to write. Sounds simple, right? Sometimes it’s the hardest thing of all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8h90yUTk5A&feature=youtu.be If you'd rather read than watch, the original pep talk can be found here.
If you're new to NaNoWriMo or if you've only ever participated online and haven't gone to the in-person events, you've missed out on one of the coolest National Novel Writing Month traditions. Collectible stickers! Every year, there's a limited run of a new design...
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