Tag: writing
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Voiceless Turned Two And I Have Feelings About It
Today, I’m remembering the nerves and the joy of seeing my first book go out into readers’ hands, and I’m remembering the young woman behind the camera.
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The Great Twitter Experiment of ’19
Or: Why I Quit Twitter. This is that blog post. Fair warning, it’s a long one. Make yourselves a cuppa and get comfy, friends.
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Life, Death, and NaNoWriMo, Pt 2
I have options. I could write another standalone, one that’s been percolating for a year or two. Or I could write Book 14. Ah. That Book 14. It’s starting to be a problem.
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What Happened When I Wrote Fifteen Books In Twenty Months.
“I’m taking a break,” I tell friends. “A long break. It’s not writer’s block — the ideas are still there — but there’s no connection and no spark. I think I’ve been pushing too hard for too long. I’ve hit a wall.” It happens. Apparently.
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How I Wrote Ten Books In A Year
The theory went like this: Thirty thousand words a week for three and a half weeks, one week off, rinse and repeat. Honestly, it was a joke. I didn’t seriously think I could do it.
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Life, Death, and NaNoWriMo
I gave myself time. Slept in and walked and laughed and cried, and considered ideas for new stories with a heavy heart and leaden fingers. I wasn’t ready yet. Maybe I would never be ready.
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On Breaks, Part II
I meant to put this up two weeks ago, but life happened. It’s been an emotional rollercoaster this last couple of months. Which leads into what I’ve been meaning to say: You know, for all my rhetoric about writer’s block not existing, and finding your process, and hitting a routine and pushing through the bad…
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My Year Of Writing Dangerously
So I spent the last year writing. Twelve months exactly. 365 days. I started on July 1st, 2017. I stopped on June 30th, 2018. In that time, and I can hardly believe it myself, I wrote 10 books and 4 novellas for a combined total of 1,143,202 words…
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Wordcounts and Waiting
I stepped back. I physically put my laptop down and went for a walk outside in the sunshine. I fought down that nagging voice at the back of my mind that says /you should be writing/. And I reminded myself that it takes as long as it takes.