Hiya folks, this came up recently at a 4th-of-July-weekend celebration I went to where a soldier had a flashback triggered by fireworks. Several friends expressed awkwardness and confusion about how to help, so I wanted to mention here what to do if someone near you has a post-traumatic stress disorder breakdown. While my PTSD is pretty well ( Read more... )

Okay... just finished reading it. And stage one of edits. After stage two of edits, I think I'll be willing to let people read it the damn thing. So far, only one person on my friends list has volunteered for teh proofy-proofy ( Read more... )

So I had already gone through and read/edited the first third or so of my last book... but I noticed today that my writing style abruptly changed around the halfway mark. I guess that's Week Two Weirdness kicking in? My main character suddenly became damn near psychic, she "get the strange feeling that" thus-and-so was going on when she really ( Read more... )

Okay, so as many of you will remember, I did NaNoWriMo last June. Well, I've got the bug again and I'm going to do it again, in August this time. Anyone who would like to see LJ coverage from last time can check out those posts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5If anyone would like to join in, be it for the whole month, to meet and write together randomly, or just ( Read more... )

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Hey guys, just wanted to give you all an update - I just crossed the 30,000 word line. Which would be great, except that today's milestone was supposed to be 40,000 words. That's okay, I'm not deathly far behind. Just... behind. And catching up, I might add - at the rate I'm catching up, I'll be fine. So yeah, I'm still in the game, and I'm ( Read more... )

Hey everybuggy, it's 4:07 on June 1st, which means I've been allowed to write on my novel for four hours and seven minutes. I haven't been, the whole time. For part of it I tried to fall asleep and then realized that my brain would not SHUT UP. Excited, I guess ( Read more... )

I have decided to do something brave, daring, and ridiculously stupid. That's right -- I'm writing a novel next month. I'm following the guidelines of NaNoWriMo but doing it in June instead of November, for a couple of reasons. One, I have the bug now, and I want to do it NOW; two, I actually like November and would hate to miss it, however the ( Read more... )