This month has been something of a journey for me, a period of re-discovery of the inner storyteller in me. It sounds ludicrous that I’ve never exercised this part of myself in any real way over the last two decades of my adult life, but it’s true nonetheless. As I’ve said, I played with my … Continue reading
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Half-finished is only Half-started
Nearly half-done! As I move ever closer to twenty-five thousand words, I’ve come to realize more and more that I am moving farther and farther away from being finished. Not with NaNoWriMo, of course, but with my novel itself. At over twenty-three thousand words, I’ve yet to finish my second chapter. That -of course- seems … Continue reading
Making Progress
So, we are now five days into NaNoWriMo. I have had a very prolific few days, managing to have written over 11,000 words so far. The weekend went somewhat slower, but I attribute that to reaching a section when I am having to write a transition that is proving difficult to navigate through. Whereas my … Continue reading
Begin the Beginning
For me, the hardest part of writing has always been actually starting to write. So hard in fact that I’ve never actually written a novel. Of course, I write; this blog is a testament to the fact that I am not shy about writing things down. Yet, writing anything resembling a novel or short story … Continue reading
Redshirts by John Scalzi
Redshirts by John Scalzi My rating: 5 of 5 stars Redshirts by John Scalzi is a wonderfully deceptive book. I already knew that the book was a satire of the ‘Red Shirt’ phenomenon in Star Trek, so I was expecting a humorous, though shallow, romp. What I did not expect was a genuinely humorous, satical … Continue reading