Many of us are dedicating their life and sanity to writing a novel this November, and I am one of them. I’ve done it four times before: The first two times I sailed through it and loved (almost) every minute of it. Then I failed epically twice in a row (managing 300 and 3500 words […]
“The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising.” — Stephen King
“When asked, ‘How do you write?’ I invariably answer, ‘One word at a time,’ and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That’s all. One stone at a […]
“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.” – William Faulkner
Welcome back, writers! Today is November 1st, which means it is also the kick off for NaNoWriMo 2013.
Hello, writers! Long time no see, right? It’s been a few months since the Sunday Night Writing series made an appearance. I hope you enjoyed your time off.
Or is it?! No, it is. It is December 1st right now, which means NaNo 2011 is over. Perhaps you hit 50,000 words or more than that or even less. But wherever you might have ended up on your personal count, congratulations! Carving out time for an undertaking like NaNo is a challenge in and […]
“People on the outside think there’s something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn’t like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that’s all there is to it.”- Harlan […]
Though we’re still solidly in October, I need to take a break from wallowing in horror-movie excess to think about the future. The very near future. The very near future in which I will be writing a 50,000 word novel of dubious quality in a limited time frame. I refer, of course, to National Novel […]