Part of a month-long series of inspirational or informational posts during NaNoWriMo. Yeah, I already mentioned this article in a longer post earlier this year, but I love this method, so I’m going to link Cory Doctorow’s article about writing in the “age of distraction” again. Oh, and happy Friday the Thirteenth.
Amy Wallace expands and updates her look at this year’s Hugo Awards and the people involved that she first reported on in August. I found the first version very illuminating and this latest version is just that or more so: really going into some of the personalities and passions on the different sides. It’s certainly true that you should write from your own perspective. Chasing trends is generally not an ingredient in a unique voice.…
A little quote from Ernest Hemingway to validate what you may be going through. Okay: band-aids on. Back to work! Part of a month-long series of inspirational or informational posts during NaNoWriMo.
Part of a month-long series of inspirational or informational posts during NaNoWriMo. Are you writing a science fiction novel? You’re in luck! It only takes seven easy steps.
Part of a month-long series of inspirational or informational posts during NaNoWriMo. Not unlike the previous entry regarding snowclones, these are phrases you may want to make sure some characters don’t say — or perhaps you want to get a sense of period and sprinkle them in. Ponder for a minute on how memes and phrases spread across time and space. What should your characters be saying?
Part of a month-long series of inspirational or informational posts during NaNoWriMo. I came across the term ‘snowclone‘ last month and thought it was fun. Perhaps you have characters that use snowclones. Perhaps you want to be sure they aren’t used at all. Now you know.
Part of a month-long series of inspirational or informational posts during NaNoWriMo. To kick off this month-long series, what better way than to look at some of the methods employed by some accomplished writers? Mind you, depending on what dayjob or other tasks you’re fitting into the month, these may not all be feasible, but they may get wheels turning about how you’ll structure your days over the next few weeks.
As many of us plunge into NaNoWriMo (in my case, a script-based variant thereof), I came up with a cunning plan: have inspirational and informational posts throughout the month to help me and perhaps others. Perhaps you can consult these when you’re stuck. Perhaps they’ll be natural breaks if you’re writing using something like the Pomodoro Technique. Whatever the case, I’ll try and update these bright and early every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday — because…
A writer writes, so I feel with all my work on Stonehenge Casting and Stonehenge XIV this year, I have been neglecting my overall writing. There have been scripts I’ve been meaning to get to and the period after Stonehenge XIV seemed like a good time to dive into them. I also wanted to be writing every day, something that I haven’t managed for most of this year. Enter NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month…
Okay, so it’s not exactly Homestar Runner –unless you’re thinking of some of the alternate realities Strong Bad emails visited, but there’s an interview and clips of their new surreal Disney XD cartoons in this Vox article. Update: And for those of you who miss Homestar and Strong Bad, there are some wonderful new ‘toons as well, including this particularly meta one.