Freelance writer Nicolette Morrison has written a blog post over on C.S. Lakin’s blog, Live Write Thrive, entitled “9 Books Aspiring Writers Must Read.” It is a good list of books for writers, and her short annotations on each book are well-done. (I was pleasantly surprised to see Orwell’s book included). I invite you to…
I am happy to announce that I passed the 50,000 word mark on Thursday, November 26, 2014, and became a winner of National Novel Writing Month. I upped my daily word count during the last week in order to reach 50k by Thanksgiving—I did not want to have it hanging over my head during the holiday…
I am down to the last week of my participation in National Novel Writing Month. As of today, I have written over 41,000 words—9,000 from the finish line. Though I have written a millions of words over the years, I do not think I have written this many words for such a sustained time in…
Seventeen more days to go in National Novel Writing Month. The draft of my novel, To and From Upon the Earth (working title) is on target to reach 50,000 words by the end of November. In fact, at this pace, I will hit the mark before the last day. I have had a few days where writing…
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…