I’ve been tagged! It’s been awhile….

Merilee of Not Enough Words was the tagger, and the subject seems timely and appropriate, don’t you think?

1. If you could have any superpower, what would you have? Why?

The power of ‘Save States’.

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Out-of-the-blue-rant time! A rant about … vegetables? No, don’t worry. This does have something to do with writing.

Brave souls may click below to proceed. …

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Welcome to March 20th. Here we are, surprised it’s already this far into the month. I think the next eleven days should be the easiest.  Once you get past a certain point, there’s a momentum that you achieve, making it much harder to quit.

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packsister:

Packsister decided to go about continuing her werewolf novel in her own way. She willingly took a knock-out on the fifteenth, which—as RG so eloquently put it—anybody would’ve done the same if they felt like an event was compromising the quality of their work. 

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Back again :)

So far, 384 words today, about Cirellio and Cauinn travelling to a small town called Javo.  They had a discussion where Cauinn reveals a bit about her past.

Just to let you know, I do plan to do an update post showing where everybody stands in the NPI on day 5 (and pretty much every five days).

So anyway, I went to hear Steve Davenport yesterday. It wasn’t quite what I expected.

He made it clear to us he’s a dyed-in-the-wool beat poet. 90% of the time, he recited his poetry. Some were 100 lines.

Apparently, he’s also a fiction writer, but he didn’t talk about that—at all.  Read the rest of this entry »

The Novel Push Initiative:

NPI is a mere four days away.

Packsister and I are going to push our novels’ word counts forward from March 1st through March 31st.

The goal is to write at least 250 words (or half a page) per day. If we miss reporting our progress via our blogs even a single day, we’re knocked out of the event.

If I can’t handle this, I guess I have no business entering NaNoWriMo.

So this is a test for me.

And I’m excited.

And nervous.

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I finally got done with “Big Blue”, a short story written from a woman’s perspective and heavy on the dialogue. It packs some emotional punch, but it’s not high fantasy. It’s present day stuff.

Still, I might enter it somewhere and see how well it performs. If anybody would like to give my first draft a read, I’d love whatever criticism you can offer. And if anybody knows of a good writing contest, that would be most helpful as well.

Oh, by the way, I’m still waiting to hear back on “En Prise” the short story I submitted late last year. :P

My fingers are growing sick of being crossed all the time.

Later, taters.

There’s so many words. Sooo many. I come across words I’m not 100% sure of the meaning of every day. It’s kind of pathetic — I pick up a book, I read a few lines, then I have to put down the book in order to look up a word or phrase I wasn’t sure of.

I mean, sure, I might’ve heard these words before, but I can’t rely solely on context clues to define words I might have to use when I write. Guesswork could end up making me look like a total idiot.

Some words are just silly — words that end up making the author sound stupid, like he’s trying too hard to sound scholarly, or like he’s exploiting the built-in thesaurus feature in Microsoft Word. Fortunately, I can tell the difference, and I can do without those. Read the rest of this entry »