Work has exploded all over my desk again, so this was not the blog I was planning for today. (Maybe this is the blog gods way of telling me to blog ahead of time? I didn’t think so either.) Confession time: I work for a big publishing house. Before you get all excited, no I can’t help you with that.
My Mini Vacation
Unofficially, my vacation started on Christmas Eve. (When you work in educational software, there isn’t much to do between 12/24 and 1/2.) Officially, it starts tomorrow at noon and ends the moment I wake up on January 4. And I’ve got plans.What are they?Besides doing a fabulous hat exchange with two good friends, writerly stuff. Like what?Revising my YA project,
November and the Art of Shitty First Drafts
Last night I completed my 50,000th word on my NaNoWriMo project – a yet to be titled urban fantasy. A lot of people would be jumping up and down at this point, but I’m keeping myself reserved for two big reasons: 1) I have at least 20,000 more words to go and 2) I know this is only the shitty
Right, Then
Next month I’m doing my first ever marathon. I haven’t trained for it, nor am I really built for it. Good thing I’m not doing a physical marathon. What I am doing is participating in my first ever NaNoWriMo. With this cherry getting popped, so is a lot of others. Like, plot cards. Authoress has talked about them and Holly
Editing, I’m Your Bitch
The past two months has been focused on the rewrite to FALLING TO NORMAL. I’m hoping that this is final time. I have moved entire scenes and chapters around. This was necessary, and I think it’s tightened my story up a lot. This also shortened the story’s time frame, which works with the new focus. I also removed the central