Preparing for NaNoWriMo: Character and Some Setting Detail

/ October 25, 2011

One week from today will be NaNoWriMo and I completed my preparation last night. My plotcards are written and organized. My characters and settings are in decent shape. By decent I mean enough has been determined to crank out a first draft. That’s the key with character and setting: you have to have enough to make it work. Character Detail

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Stop! Haiku Time!

/ October 24, 2011

Welcome to Monday, Lurkdom. The day job is busy and the interns are chatty. It’s also a week from Halloween. 13 Zombies delight me Enlightening my grave thoughts Towards death I go Stay tuned this week for some more NaNoWriMo tips and other things.  ______ Last.fm hit of the day: The Virus of Life by Slipknot

Best Ages! With Pictures!

/ October 21, 2011

Today’s prompt from Paper Hangover is hard as hell. The 5 best ages of my life? I’m lucky if I can pick one because that’s how I roll. Yours truly can’t remember much from my single digit days, though I think I had a decent year 5*, and we’ll totally overlook the middle school years because that well and truly

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Zombies! They’re Bacccckkk!

Ag2218/ October 20, 2011

Zombie Thursdays is a weekly feature with guest blogger, Miranda. You can read more about her here. Zombie Thursday is back! And with a vengeance! I have a few zombie related topics to discuss after my absence, so I hope you will forgive me and that Alicia won’t kill me (mostly because I don’t want to come back as undead)!

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Why I Write

/ October 19, 2011

Every Wednesday, YA Highway asks their readership a simple question to answer on your blog. Once you answer, you link your blog in the comments for other readers to hop on board. This is Road Trip Wednesday. Today’s topic: What’s your numero-uno reason for writing? This is such a great question and oddly one that no one in my life

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