I was going to use today’s post to tease the stories I wrote during NaNo. It was going to be awesome. I could feel it. But then…. BUT THEN, I made some covers this weekend and sent the first of my monster erotica stories off to my editor and now I just want to share […]
Since this is the last Tuesday of the month (and I arbitrarily decided I should punch my word count in the junk), I thought I’d take a minute to update y’all on what happens when the muse grabs you by the throat and bellows at you to WRITE THIS STORY NOW as it shakes you […]
Funny story! (not really, but I’m going to pretend) I haven’t written a word on my planned zombie apocalypse love story book this month. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I’ve written a metric fuckton on book 3 in the demon/werewolf series (in case you were wondering, a fuckton is A LOT) and I started […]
Holla, peeps! We’re 12 days into NaNo today and to be on par, you should be at or nearing the 20K word mark. (I’m writing this over the weekend, so I don’t have any hard numbers for you as to where I am, but I am VERY pleased with what I’ve accomplished thus far.) One […]
For those of you following along, we’re on Day 5 of NaNoWriMo. We’ve completed four days of literary madness. Or just madness. Take your pick. Now the FUN part starts. Okay, I’m lying. Some of what comes next isn’t fun. We’ve ridden the adrenaline wave of starting out and are settling into that stretch where […]
This past weekend, I had author Jodi Redford visiting for a few days. I willingly put everything on hold for this visit because OMG! SHE’S A FREAKING HOOT AND I ADORE HER! But this got me thinking… you can prepare and plan and plot until the cows come home and yet sometimes things happen that […]
I have ten days to finish my preparedness checklist for NaNo. I know what I’m writing about (ZOMBIES! And two non-zombie people who like to get naked a lot!) and I know where the story needs to start and end. In my opinion, these are probably the most important things. I can do a lot […]
A few weeks ago, I started an impromptu rewatching of Supernatural. I’m in the middle of season 2 and I’m LOVING the balance between drama and humor that those Winchester boys bring to the table. (I’m up to the Trickster episode — Dean, we don’t need more of your blah blah blah blah. Blah blah […]
Both the hardest and the easiest thing about writing is that there is no one right way to do things. It’s hard because there’s no road map to getting it done. You have to forge your own path and figure out what works for you. It’s easy because YOU GET TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WORKS […]
I’m going to take the month of October to talk about NaNoWriMo and the things I do to prepare for a balls-to-the-wall month of writing. But first, let me preface this… For those that don’t know, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. I’ve been participating in NaNo since 2005 (with a bleak year off […]