On this beautiful Saturday morning at 5:30 am (don’t look at me, I’m on my way to bed!) I thought I would talk about something that’s been on my mind lately, since I’ve been asked about it a few times. It has to do with how I approach full length novels and short stories, particularly…
OMGLOOKATITSOCUTE. 4. Tell us about one of your first stories/characters! I wrote my first “novel” when I was six years old. Yes, this insanity goes back that far. This is back when I literally cut pieces of paper in half and handwrote on them so I could make them into a legit “book”. I would…
This actually happens, kids. Just this in, everybody. No longer do you have to rely on your friends, your fans (if you are so blessed as to have them) or even your middle school language arts teacher to inform you what kind of famous author you write like. Thanks to extreme advances in technology since…
Please tell me you see it. Please. My longest manuscript thus far is cappin’ around 500 pages. Maybe around 250k words. The usual accepted length for a “novel” (ie: not a novella or a short story) is around 50k words and at least over 100 pages. Of course, this is arbitrary, but please humor this…
Nanowrimo is drawing to a close and I’ve got about 3k left to go. Not too much to worry about, especially with a relatively empty night before me. However, it is a bit daunting to see so many of my nano buddies crossing the line now…of course I would like to blame getting sick TWICE…
First of all, I feel that I should comment on NaNoWriMo thus far. Currently I am a couple thousand words ahead and expect to finish with some time to spare. Getting sick for a weak though put me a little behind, but don’t fear, I shall prevail! =) With that, moving on. In said novel…
Hey kids, guess what…only one more week before NaNoWriMo ’09 begins! Now I’m not exactly the most…level person when it comes to NaNoWriMo. In fact, I unsympathetically joined the ranks of the rebels long ago when I first started participating in NaNoWriMo in 2007. The rules stipulate something about starting a story from scratch or…
Since being back at school, I’ve had to take extreme measures to make sure I’m still writing. Well, not completely extreme, but you must get what I mean. I’m trying at the very least to chug through at least one page a day on Nagnomei, and two on CROSS// (or however much I can do…
Well, not really, but I do have to apologize for being so quiet lately because I moved back to school…twice. Long story. Has nothing to do with writing. Really. But yes, now I am back at school. Senior year, it be. That means more lovely places to write but hardly the time to do so….
(Note, this entry was originally meant to be longer and slightly more convoluted, but due to time constraints I must cut it short. Feel free to engage me in the comments, though.) I write fantasy novels. Working on two series right now. One is high fantasy and the other could probably be best explained as…