Since this is the final stretch for July's Camp NaNo session -- only three days left! -- I figured I would talk about deadlines and how they either help a writer or stress them out, depending on the type of writer you are. No matter what kind of writer you are in the face of deadlines, there is … Continue reading Deadlines: A Writer’s Best Friend, or Worst Enemy?
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Five More Days
Five more days. There's just five more days left to the first Camp NaNoWriMo of 2017. Remember on Friday I had said I had a huge writing sprint of 8.2k words and had caught up to par and even surpassed it again, even finishing the chapter I was on? Remember that I was excited and … Continue reading Five More Days
Rough Starts, Outlining, and a Cackling Plot Bunny
I can't believe it's already the 10th of January. Time is already flying by, which is a scary thought for the rest of year, and for all my plans. The first week of January was pretty brutal on me. Mentally and emotionally at least. With my history, that combination is a rather large detriment to accomplishing goals and … Continue reading Rough Starts, Outlining, and a Cackling Plot Bunny
Planning A Year
It's officially 2017. I hope everyone's New Year so far is shaping up as they had hoped. I'm sure there's lots of new goals and resolutions and hope out there. Whatever you're aiming to better or do this year, good for you; and if you have no resolutions, well, then, good for you too. After … Continue reading Planning A Year
Rearing Plot Bunnies
It's been an interesting couple of days. Not just with work and life, but with writing as well. My mind has been quite brain dead lately thanks to the holiday madness and the fact I think I burned out slightly after NaNoWriMo. I haven't been writing because I've both been so busy and exhausted due to those … Continue reading Rearing Plot Bunnies
Stressing For A Win
Sooo... I may or may not be rather far behind on NaNo again... Alright, there's no maybe about it. I am. *Sigh* I was supposed to write Tuesday night after I finished my blog post, and, well, yeah. I got sidetracked and I was tired already. I don't think I actually got any words down … Continue reading Stressing For A Win
Goal Crunching
Another weekend has come and gone, and with it comes the end of August. Where has the time gone? Didn't August just start? With the end of August also comes the deadline of all the goals I had for August, and, er, well... *Clears throat, looks off innocently* Can I skip talking about that? Let's … Continue reading Goal Crunching
Emotions-5, Daelyn-O
Well I did it. I took the biggest plunge of my life in my writing so far and submitted the short story to the anthology at about 1am on Saturday. (To me it was still Friday but according to the clocks it was Saturday.) I am still terrified. Literally, after setting up the email and attaching … Continue reading Emotions-5, Daelyn-O
This Is It
The moment of truth. The big and scary "holy shit" moment. The "I can't believe I'm actually doing this" moment. If you've paid attention to the past week and a half of my posts, you'll have noticed I've been talking about a submission I've been working on for a Halloween anthology. The deadline for that … Continue reading This Is It
Scarping Versus Scraping
Alright, so I didn't finish writing my short story submission for the anthology by Saturday like I had wanted. I got close, but I was hitting blocks and I was a real cranky bitch for a couple days so not a lot of writing happened. I did write every day, but I didn't finish the … Continue reading Scarping Versus Scraping
