Fountain of Awesomeness

There is something very intimate about writing. I don't know how it is for other writers.  For me, though, the words have more power and a deeper intimacy based on how they are written, and sometimes about whom or for they are written.The draft of the book I just finished for National Novel Writing Month, for example, …

Of Writing Groups and Drinking One’s Own Fluids

In the good/bad column for days, I would mark today decidedly "good."Work was just the right amount of busy so that I felt productive without feeling like my hair was on fire and I wasn't going ever get caught up.The grand screw up that was the delivery of my fountain pen was made all better …

Two Questions And A Gassy Lambchop

You might be sitting there asking yourself, “Dude...you won. You hit your word count goal for NaNoWriMo. Why the heck are you still writing?”And that’s a good question.Or you might be sitting there asking, “Why are you writing another flipping post about NaNo? Jeesh dude. Move on. We need some insight in to why sheep …

Participation Trophies Don’t Get You Published

Fuck You Nano: Day 25I want to give up. And not really ‘give up’ per se. What I mean is, two days ago I hit the point in my draft where I was actually able to type “The End”It was a first for me. I really tried to drag it out, I’m not going to …

A Grateful Heart

This week has been a real up and down of a shit show, and it's only Thursday at that. Tomorrow is one of the busiest days of the year for my team. A team that supports a nationwide retail chain of computer and electronics stores.  The second busiest day, if you're wondering, is a toss …

Four-thousand short, twenty-three thousand ahead

I typed two words for the first time on any novel I've ever started (and there have been a few).Want to see them?  Here they are:THE ENDYeah. I was a bit bummed because I didn't get to go up north today and do some writing with my NCOW family.  Sitting at home on the love …

Of NaNoWriMo and Writing Groups

I’m not really sure if I hit a wall this weekend or not.All I know is that I smashed my goal to hit the 40,000 work mark. And by ‘smash’ I mean that choked out about 400 words past that 40K wall.But I’m not going to bore you with just  talk about National Novel Writing …

Keep Writing

There are times on this blog I say that I'm really writing this for me (and inviting you to come along for the ride). This might be one of those times.I just hit 23,924 words in NaNo this year. I will count this blog post toward my daily word count today, so that total might …

Who By Fire

Growing up, I knew I was going to be a writer. At least on some level I knew. My heroes were not sports figures. OK. There was also the slight chance I was going to be an astronaut or a radio DJ.My heroes and inspirations, though, were masters of the written word. Isaac Asimov (The …

Rogue NaNo

I know that it's probably not a good indicator that I'm already doing a renegade post to get my word count in on Day 1 of NaNoWriMo, but I couldn't bear the thought of not actually making some sort of progress.I picked up the novel that I had started during last year's NaNo and was excited …