You may NOT be a NaNoWriMo rebel after all! There's been a change in the rules and they're subtle so you might have missed them. Let me address your attention to this page from the official help: Do I have to start my novel from scratch on the first of the month? Can...
Manually add past NaNoWriMo novels to show your victory & participation history in badges
NaNoWriMo veterans, there's something different with your profile this year and you're going to want to take note. You may be missing victory or participation badges from past years! Wrimo profiles used to have a field where you could input every year you'd...
My new Work in Progress, nicknamed Clone Rocker, will be my 2014 NaNoWriMo novel
One of the strangest pregnancy side effect is weird dreams. Like, dreams so vivid and dark  that your doctor actually warns you about them ahead of time so you don't think you've gone completely insane. So, like, next level weird. Yeah, that's a thing. Anyway, when I...
Programming note: new posts every Monday and Wednesday at 8 AM EST
Looking for today's post? I'm changing up the posting schedule. From now on, new posts will go up here, on Unpublishable Pennings, every Monday at 8 AM EST while another new post will go up every Wednesday at 8 AM EST over on The Whine Seller. Unpublishable...
In which I have not one, but two new books releasing this fall
Sometimes I make poor life decisions. Sometimes I do dumb things like stay up all night reading when I know perfectly well the baby will be up before dawn. Or I go to the bank without to bringing the check I needed to cash. Or I completely forget that my wedding...
The Love of Three Oranges (one-act version) cover reveal
Look what I just got in the mail! It's... not orange! I feel like that's kind of a plot twist... Anyway, now that you've seen the cover, go ahead and read all but the last few scenes of the play for free here.
My 2013 NaNoWriMo novel: M5
As I prepare for NaNoWriMo 2014, I realized I never got to tell you guys anything about the project I did for NaNoWriMo 2013. I'd like to introduce you to a new work in progress: M5. It's short for a very long alliterative title. If you went to middle school with me,...
The Green Bird and the specter of Julie Taymor’s Broadway production
I started an adaptation of Carlo Gozzi's The Green Bird* back in 2002 but abandoned it... only to pick the project back up again this year. There are three big reasons why I walked away and ultimately came back to this play and I'm going to devote a full blog post to...
The Love of Three Oranges (one-act version) is now available through Playscripts, Inc
Not to get all clickbait on you but you won't believe what just happened... You know how I told you last Friday that I sent my final edits on the one-act version of The Love of Three Oranges to Playscripts on 8/20? Check this out... Well, golly! That was fast! When...
There’s nothing more disgusting than warm chocolate chip cookies right out of the oven, right?
"The most disgusting thing is chocolate chip cookies right out of the oven. Like when the chips are all warm and gooey." And as my cousin said this, she shuddered like the mere thought of it made her sick to her stomach. The rest of us were like... are you joking?...
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