From the monthly archives: November 2009
NaNoWriMo is over! Did you win? I sure as heck didn’t. I grant you 3 days off. By Thursday I want you writing again. I explain why I’m a NaNo failure (again) and what I think of the Harlequin Horizons thing. Check my most recent blogpost for links.
Promo: Grant’s Advent Calendar
The whole Harlequin Horizons kerfuffle has been rampaging around the blogosphere for the past two weeks. I haven’t said anything about it because I haven’t had anything new to say in regards to it that others haven’t said better. Here’s a list from Making Light of write-ups from the pro organizations. [...]
It’s not all positive. It’s not all “go eagle go” and “persistence is king” and all that.
Sometimes it really [expletive deleted] sucks.
Now, don’t worry about me. I’m not horribly depressed- I’m much better than I was last week, and decided to blog about it while I was on the upswing instead of when [...]
00:00:07 ISBW #136 00:01:27 State of the Mur: novel edits are taking priority over NaNoWriMo. 00:03:40 Promo:Dr. Wicked’s Write or Die software 00:04:49 Main topic: For parents. Priorities, being a writer, being a success, being a role model, and following your dream. 00:13:43 Promo: J. Daniel Sawyer and Book 2 [...]
I was going to post something about the awesomeness that is Nathan Lowell, but then I figured I’d let him speak for himself. Congrats, Nate, you’re a true inspiration.
After the Challenge
by Nathan Lowell
Today’s Sunday, the 15th of November. People of NaNoWriMo are frantically hammering out words to beat [...]
I will offer no excuses or give personal boring information. But as I said at the beginning, my priority this month has been the editing of one novel, and NaNoWriMo has been the second priority. So while the edits are going along quite well, and I definitely have been writing, the NaNoWriMo project has stalled [...]
I am taking a small break from NaNoWriMo this weekend. Working on two novels is taking too much out of me, and I need to finish one before I really dive into the other one. Come Monday I’ll be approx. 5k words behind. I gotta be ready to take up that slack. I’d feel bad [...]
I dropped the above phrase from my standard intro of the show last year. I did not do this out of ego or a sense of accomplishment, but because I received constant emails after the publications of Playing For Keeps that I was no longer a wanna-be. I had arrived. The noise got so loud, [...]
I follow a lot of agents on twitter, and apparently many of them look forward to December with trepidation. That’s when “novels” that are 50K or so, rough, unedited, and sloppy, hit their desks.
I find this unbelievable. Not that the agents dread it, and not that it happens, but that so little common sense [...]
As you may or may not have noticed, there has been no News From Poughkeepsie content this week. This will continue onto next week, but we’ll be up and running again on the 16th. Indeed, NFP shall rise like the phoenix, more beautiful and terrible than ever, outshining the [...]
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