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NoNaNo
Did not win NaNo. Did not get past about 2600 words, in point of fact.
On the other hand, I rewrote an entire book between October 8th and November 13th, so. I've decided I won't be beating myself up. -
On Writing Advice
I may have mentioned that I came to a conclusion a while back, but I want to revisit it even if I did. And that conclusion is that writing advice is often either given or taken as prescriptive when in fact everyone everywhere should realize it is, at best, descriptive ( Read more... ) -
Heh.
I suppose now that the secret is "out", I won't get much more of this, but I find myself really entertained by the people who want to talk about my book--and not because they want to talk about my book, exactly, but they want me to explain myself for being secretly interesting. Or something.
My thoughts:
1) If you didn't find me interesting before, ( Read more... ) -
*waves*
I'm back to liking my book again.
*shrug*
I know many of you are not a fan of the kind of romance that starts off with hate and ends with love, and truly, I don't like it if it's not earned, or at least understood/explained--but you know what? It's not about the truth of that relationship that I like watching it; it's highly uncomfortable to hate, ( Read more... ) -
Tonight we are playing "up all night"
...as I dramatically pare down this Book of a Thousand Everythings and hope that what I leave behind can be given sufficient emotional heft as to be Highly Exciting to more than people who already know me ( Read more... ) -
...moving on
Seriously, my book talk was the most fun I've had with this writing gig since I sold the book.
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Happy Book Day To Me
Here's the jumble:
In October, my awesome fun book signing at MY library (the one I've worked in since I was 19, give or take a few years spent at the library next door). With CAKE.
No, I mean CAKE.
Deni of Small Review loves my book. I mean, this is like ideal reader love. I don't intend to post many reviews here, if ANY more--I'll just note that ( Read more... ) -
*flurp*
It seems to me that enforcing a book-buying moratorium on myself would be fully hypocritical since I'm going to spend the rest of my life encouraging people to purchase books with my name on them, so I'm going to go on a book-buying diet for a few months, and see if I can't lose 10% of my bookweight.
That would be, actually, unread bookweight. ( Read more... ) -
Itchy/Scratchy
So, remember my awesome dermagraphia and hives and the h1/h2 anti-histamine blocker saga? No? That's okay. If you do, you may be interested to know that the promised "It will burn itself out eventually--90% of cases do in a year," remained untrue for 2 years. Or was it 3? I don't even know anymore ( Read more... ) -
Two pictures
a) the photo I did snap of yesterday's storm, after the coolest of light effects was gone--but some of the green is still there in the water
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