About a year ago, I received an email from a college-going complete stranger on MySpace who had been recommended my first book, The Other Side of What, because a friend of his thought the storyline of the lead character sounded a bit too much like his own life. We corresponded very briefly, and while I was flattered, I hopefully convinced him that the book was not based on any events in his life because (1) I had never met this person and (2) We established I wrote the majority of the book before those certain events in his life had even taken place. I think he was disappointed.
By today, I should be over 21,000 words to be on track according to the NaNo Calendar. I hate to admit it, but I’m just over 14,000. Cheryl Anne Gardner over at PodPeep recently posted about quality vs. quantity, and I totally agreed with her from the start. The word count target on the calendar [...]
Well, it’s Day 5 of NaNoWriMo and I was off to a good start, but the calendar I posted in my Day 1 post is catching up with me as far as word count goes. I need to be at 8335 words by midnight tonight, and right now I’m about 1,000 short. I’ve yet to [...]
Many of you know it as NaNoWriMo for short and it’s fast approaching! While the official site is more of a support blog offering forums, hints, tips, and more, it’s been going strong for 10 years. Participants begin on November 1st with only one goal in mind: write a 175 page novel (at least 50,000) words in one month. It’s more about enthusiasm than craft, and yes, much of the work written will be “crap.” But here is NaNoWriMo’s answer for why you should do it anyway…
Today, Floyd M. Orr’s iUBR blog led me to a wonderful older post on author, D. H. Schleicher’s blog. Schleicher’s success story inspired me and I wanted to bring it to your attention. (He also briefly mentions Lulu in one of his replies to a reader comment.)
