It’s time to show that rough draft who’s boss I can’t be the only writer this happens to The project you’re working on might be your first, or your forty-first novel. You may have a detailed outline, even a scene-by-scene breakdown.…
Reviving my imagination with NaNoWriMo In a year that doesn’t seem real, writing fiction is tough At least it has been for me, and I’m sure I’m not alone. Back in March when life was upended and we were all…
Don’t worry. This post is not 50,000 words long. It’s a shout-out to NanoWrimo, or National Novel Writing Month, which is in its last week right now. If you’re not familiar, the challenge of NanoWrimo is to write a novel —…
I’m not talking turkey here, or Day of the Dead, and certainly not Black Friday (which I abhor, but that’s a topic for another time. Maybe Black Friday). I’m talking NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month for the uninitiated. This…
ignatianspirituality.com What is it about beginning something that is so fraught? Especially, very most especially, a writing project. For me, beginning a big writing project comes more heavily freighted with angst than the other beginnings one normally associates with stress: a…