This month will be pretty busy with National Novel Writing Month, so I figured I'll make my weekly blog posts mostly updates on my progress with that. My project for NaNo this year is a paranormal romance set in Anchorage, Alaska. I lived there for three years while stationed at Elmendorf, Air Force Base, and…
This year will be my eighth year taking part in National Novel Writing Month, referred to as NaNoWriMo or NaNo by participants. For those who’ve never heard of it before, NaNoWriMo is a global personal challenge for writers. The goal? Write 50,000 words in one month. For some, that may sound very easy. For others,…
Over the years, I’ve experienced what many refer to as writer’s block. However, I don’t think that name is entirely appropriate to the feeling. Instead, it’s more of a malaise. I simply don’t want to write what I know I “have” to write. So, I don’t write, not a single word. I’ll avoid emails, text…
Since I began writing as a teenager, I’ve always had multiple stories in the works at once. I think my highest number was twelve! Just like I’m a mood writer incapable of sticking to a To-Be-Read list, I’m a mood writer as well. I consider myself incapable of being monogamous to my stories, but I…
I wrote my first fanfiction story when I was fifteen, and I had no idea what I was doing as far as plotting and planning. It probably exists somewhere out there in the ether of the Internet, although I haven’t checked in a long time. It definitely exists in my files, a reminder of how…
From the name you use to identify your writing as “yours,” to what you’re going to title a piece of writing, to what names you use for the characters if you write fiction, there are many choices to be made. Each choice can affect how your audience perceives you, your writing, and the things you write about.