I am a human being. Flawed. Flailing. Far from polished. For the longest time, I've been trying to limit the number of personal posts I put on this blog. Things like word count updates, posts where I ramble about my various works in progress, or those posts where I...
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"Stop looking at the mountain of words you've yet to write. You climb even the steepest path one step at a time and that’s how you’re going to reach your goal: word by word." -Hillary DePiano That quote above is from a pep talk I did for Camp NaNoWriMo (whole thing is...
My posting schedule is kind of shot to hell this month partly because of NaNoWriMo and partly because there is just so much going on between a dozen productions of The Love of Three Oranges and the two (um, three now, more on that on The Whine Seller tomorrow) new...
One thing we've just got to discuss before NaNoWriMo ends is the fact that Writer's Digest actually did a whole issue devoted to NaNoWriMo. It was even the cover story! The whole issue was packed with tips about writing a novel in a month and support for the event....
Schools and other armature groups, I've got some great news for you! So many of you want to film your stage production of The Love of Three Oranges or Polar Twilight just to have an archival copy for your cast and crew. You would never do anything illegal like sell...
I'm sure I'll have more to say about this production as its run continues but I had to just jump in quickly now and let you know about the production of The Love of Three Oranges happening at the Piccolo Theatre in Evanston, IL running from November 14-December 20th....
I was one of the NaNoWriMo pep talkers for the April 2014 Session of Camp and I never got to share that full pep talk here. While my focus in April was on rebels and everyone doing something other than a novel, the basics of this talk absolutely apply to everyone...
I was in a NaNoWriMo write-in last night when, suddenly, my novel ended. We were doing a word sprint and I couldn't think of what scene came next (because, while I didn't outline, I did formulate a list of scenes I thought might appear somewhere just to give me...
I don't know how to write this blog post without sounding like a jerk but here goes. I'm ahead on NaNoWriMo. Like, really ahead. And this is going to sound like bragging but it's really just a statement of fact: I'm ahead and I'm not even working all that hard. Every...
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