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:: a NaNo Letter ::
My reply to the "To The Dark Gods of Writing" thread in the NaNoWriMo Ate My Soul forum ( Read more... ) -
:: well, well, well ::
Today I discovered a first person narrator - or narrative voice at least - that I didn't know I had - and about whom I know nothing, at the moment. I also met Jasper, who is a Fervid Ember...whatever that is. It does sound promising though.
Just keep writing. -
:: forum post, copied here for posterity ::
Dear Muse ( Read more... ) -
:: musings ::
maybe i'll do this and maybe i won't. between gigging/practicing with incendium, teaching the circus class, drag, band, and work, i feel like my life is - thankfully - busier than ever before. but this has been such a fantastic and amazing year so far that i have a feeling i won't be able to resist seeing what happens if i tackle nano in it. ( Read more... ) -
:: a taste ::
Kay, so I am the world's biggest NaNo slacker. I know, big surprise. I just...I've been getting flashes, but no big long marathons of writing. I'm trying tonight. We'll see. In the meantime, here's the beginning. Maybe if someone looks at it I will be more motivated to write the frakkin thing.
( on the river... ) -
:: most. appropriate. icon. ever. ::
So this year, I'm writing zombie apocalypse Cincinnati. Not sure who precisely is behind it yet - I suspect Dayton and Lexington may be ganging up on the 275 loop - and I have no characters with names, but I know where it starts and I know that at some point there is a zombie brain-licking chihuahua puppy. (Her brothers are a pair of pit bulls ( Read more... ) -
:: no words free ::
Dear Inner Editor,
Get the everlasting FRACK out of my head.
No love,
nanowrimolissa -
:: redirecting thought and energy ::
It's all material. Direct it all into your novel. That's what you have characters for - to subject them to things, right? So what if it turns into chick lit urban fantasy - that's not so bad, that's almost kind of a new genre sort of but not really. At least it would be different. Maybe it doesn't distract the mind, but at least it turns it into ( Read more... ) -
:: stand another round ::
Well, I'm still not being as productive as I'd like, but I passed a milestone today, so I'm happy for that. Plus, I'll be at home for a couple of days, and I'm hoping I can swing some outdoor writing time now that I have the laptop and I've learned that for a pentium II running 98 FE, this computer gets hella good battery time. Well over an hour of ( Read more... ) -
:: movin on up ::
Dear Muse ( Read more... )