Image by DavidTurnbull via Flickr Here’s the short version: I’m dropping out of NaNoWriMo to avoid burnout. Yes, after only five days. But I’m still writing. The long version is that I’m only dropping out on a technicality, and here’s why. See, I’ve written one day on NaNoWriMo thus far. Sunday, I was physically exhausted from ICC [...]
Image by eddyfate via Flickr This weekend I finally took all of the brainstorming I’ve done for Night Fall and starting turning it into an outline. I used a modified version of the Snowflake Method for plotting. Last week I started with a one-sentence"elevator pitch" for the book, and expanded that into a paragraph of five sentences, making sure [...]
Image by eddyfate via Flickr First off, I decided to write Night Fall, the parody novel of female vampire hunter "bad girl" protagonists, featuring Katrina Night. I even mocked up a fake book cover last week and posted it on Flickr, to help me visualize the book itself more clearly. I covered the various reasons [...]
Image by thinkpanama via Flickr The check-up with the surgeon’s office was very short — mostly it was a cleaning of the extraction sites and a quick lesson in how to do it myself (twice a day). The nurse told me that actually I’m doing really well — many patients can’t really even open their mouths [...]
I looked over the poll results, and I did a lot of thinking about what I really want to write. (I even added a novel idea that I forgot about, got attached to it for a while, and then ultimately cut it.) Ultimately, I told myself that there’s a decent chance that all of those will get written at some point, [...]
Originally published at The Whitechapel Project (for MP3s and polls, click this link). You can comment here or there. Image by nataliesap via Flickr A few quick things that Whitechapel readers might be interested in. Shadow Freak is the sorry bastard lucky winner of the Agent Mission contest. He (or someone with his name, at [...]
Between encouragement (well, mocking) from my family and a few people at work keen on the idea, I’m seriously considering giving National Novel Writing Month a try this year. Which means I have to start outlining… well, now. I’ve actually wanted to try NaNoWriMo for about five years now, but I’ve never had a chance [...]