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Just wanted to share some of my NaNo experience from waaay back in January, 2009. My friend, Sara Harvey, challenged another friend (Janet Berry–her NaNo post is here: http://heatherdaygilbert.blogspot.com/2011/09/googling-handguns-for-greater-good-by.html) and me to join her in writing a book in a month–only not the “proper” month of November–we did it in January. Jan broke down our writing schedule into words per… Read More
Today, I’m participating in the Deja Vu Blogfest, in which myriad bloggers hop, skip and jump about the internet, searching for blog-gems they didn’t realize existed. I’m looking forward to finding and following other writerly blogs. I’m also hoping bookinamonthmom will entice some weary wanderers in to become followers, too. Our challenge was to re-post old blogposts that we loved… Read More
I can’t really think of any other words for this post. I’m giddy with excitement, like I’m in love for the first time. Why? I can’t stop writing! I’ve got the seed of a new novel in my head, and ideas are pouring out nonstop. Is this the initial infatuation phase? You’d better believe it! I was recently infatuated with… Read More
For those of you just warming up your keyboards, ready to start pounding out your novels for National Novel Writing Month, I wanted to do a little retrospective of my NaNoWriMo novel experience. It was January, 2007. Nope, I didn’t do it in the proper month. Nor did I even register with NaNoWriMo. But I did finish the book in… Read More
Well, here I am, still agent-less and crestfallen. However, I feel remarkably chipper when I re-read your lovely comments on Otherworld. The sad truth is that this book is on the very short side of adult fiction (at 50,000 words, as opposed to 80,000). So, my options are… 1) Add about 30,000 more words to my basically complete story–half the… Read More
Hi there guys, thank you so much for asking about the next chapter. I’m trying to figure out how many to post as I check into publishers, etc. I may post one more or two, but I’m coming to a huge turning point in the book and I don’t want to give it away! In the meantime, I’ll update you… Read More