By guest blogger Glenn Walker When I was asked to contribute a guest blog about the NaNoWriMo, I jumped right in, just like the NaNoWriMo, and churned one out – and much like the publishing industry itself, I was told it wasn’t a good fit. Good friend and the queen of Fear of Writing, Milli…
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10K Day: Live, While It’s Happening! – Nov 24 & 27
WELCOME TO ALL those plucky writers who are participating this week! This is the place to post your check-ins for Wednesday, November 24 and/or Saturday, November 27. To learn more about this event, check the special 10K Day section (see blog menu above). If you develop a case of writer’s block—or need some extra ideas…
All The Reasons Not To Nano… And Why I Do It Anyway
By Jordan Drew There are a million reasons I could come up with not to do NaNoWriMo… well maybe not a whole million because that would take forever, but there are a lot of reasons. Stress is one of the biggies, perhaps even the biggest, since everything about NaNo causes stress in the first place….
Inside NaNoWriMo: An Interview with Tumblemoose
By Judy Clement Wall Today marks the halfway point for NaNoWriMo. To celebrate the occasion, I asked my writer-teacher-librarian friend (and Nano stud), George Angus, to let me grill him relentlessly on the subject. He said yes because, well, I was wearing my cape. People say yes when I put on the cape. Here is…
NaNoWriMo: Bump the Mid-Month Slump
By Glenn Walker You jumped right into the NaNoWriMo full tilt midnight Halloween night, didn’t you? Your fingers raced across your keyboard building worlds, breathing life into characters and tangling them all into intricate plots. You roared ahead past five thousand words, ten thousand words and even twenty thousand words. However as you cooled your…
Getting It Down
By Judy Clement Wall “Shitty First Drafts” is my favorite chapter in my favorite writing book of all time, Anne Lamott’s bird by bird. The book, for those of you who haven’t read it, is equal parts wisdom and neurosis (like most writers I know), and “Shitty First Drafts” was the chapter that spoke most…
6k Short of 10k
Reprinted with permission from Ja’nese Dixon Fear of Writing held a day-long challenge. Writers were asked to cop a squat and write 10k words. I had a plan. I would gather my research for Black Diamond and use the time to work on my outline for NaNoWriMo. I had part of that right—I worked on…
