Six days into National Novel Writing Month, I have written over 10,000 words and met my goal of about 1700 a day. Twenty-five more days to the finish line for (working title) To and Fro Upon the Earth. In the last post, I described how I had chosen a general thematic concept, the literary style, and chosen…
Image courtesy of National Novel Writing Month In two days I will begin writing for National Novel Writing Month. Joining hundreds of thousands of other writers, I will produce about 1700+ words a day for 30 days. NaNoWriMo writers often describe themselves as either ‘Outliners’ or ‘Pantsers,’ that is, they write by outlining first or…
As I discussed in my post on October 9, 2014, I have joined the National Novel Writing Month community this year. On November 1, I will begin writing my next novel. The goal is to write 50,000 words by November 30, ideally by writing about 1700 words each day. I usually write between 800 to…
[box type=”bio”] We are pleased to publish this series of guest posts by Dr. Markus McDowell, an author and editor. He writes primarily nonfiction in the fields of law and religion, but we discovered that he has written fiction since he was 14 years old (but never published any). We convinced him to give NaNoWriMo…
I saw an internet meme, one of those which compares an “envisioned” topic with the “reality” of the topic. This meme addressed the zombie apocalypse. The top picture was of a group of zombies stumbling down a street, with the label “how we envisioned the zombie apocalypse.” The picture below was a group of teens…
To the Lighthouse By Virginia Woolf This novel is considered a masterpiece by many. I can see why: beauty of the prose, the gentle meandering narrative, and the characters are familiar in their everyday life. Though I usually enjoy the literature from this period, with its stream-of-consciousness style, I was slightly frustrated throughout. I felt…