Welcome back for my weekly A Round of Words in 80 Days update. Each week I talk about what I’ve been doing, what I’m going to do and tweak my goals a bit. Today’s going to be a big tweaking day considering that this round ends with 2012, and I Read More
Category: Pen Monkey
Making a comeback!
I was going to call this post, "Coming from behind," but my twelve year old brain wouldn’t let me type that without a lot of giggling. Thesaurus.com is a lifesaver. It’s the close of the first full week of National Novel Writing Month. All good little NaNo’ers have 10,000 words Read More
On this, the beginning of NaNoWriMo.
Happy NaNoWriMo!!! Last night was my first crack at racking up some words for NaNoWriMo. I’m a little worried about how I’m beginning this NaNo. I plotted this book out maybe a month ago now and haven’t had the chance to look at my notes before it was time to Read More
A new NaNoWriMo
It’s that time of the year. Bags of Candy Corn are ripped open, we’re all running on a sugar high and November is knocking down our door. It’s one of my favorite times of year! Why? Halloween! Hockey Season! Okay, not this year, thank you NHL lock out. *grumble* NaNoWriMo! What Read More
The Novel Notebook
There once was a Writing Goddess known sometimes as Lynn Viehl, and she looked and saw other little writers aspiring to greatness, but unable to keep their plots and ideas in line. So the Writing Goddess gave the little writers a present – The Novel Notebook. And all the little Read More
The One Stop Cheat Sheet
This is a writing craft thing I thought I would share. Readers, this might amuse you to learn the epic proportions of my laziness. Writers, you might love this suggestion! Back in January and February when I was pimping Flirting with Rescue, I got super tired of tracking down the buy Read More
Writer Tools
I started to write some craft related blogs and I was talking about some different tools I was using and realized… Not everyone is going to know what I’m talking about! So I figured I would do a one shot tools for writers post. Not that this won’t be updated in time, Read More
Disappearing for a few!
Dear Reader, I’m going to be MIA for a few days. Between doing edits for Flirting with Rescue and my birthday, there’s a lot going on! I wish I would have anticipated the cram of stuff right now, because I would have scheduled blogs in advance, but alas, I cannot Read More
NaNoWriMo Check-In!
Dear Reader, Wowmygod this month has been nuts! With everything going on, the sickness, the moving, the holidays, I’m surprised I’ve managed to write anything. At this point I’m just shy of 45,000 words for the month, and NaNoWriMo ends on Wednesday. I can totally do 5K in the next Read More
Day 15 #NaNoWriMo Snippet
Today was a better writing day. I didn’t get the amount of words done I would have liked to, but I still did 2K! Tonight was my weekly write-in that I host in my apartment. I also finally got some crucial pieces of furniture put together, so I’m going Read More
