I did it. I signed up. I have been shifting back and forth between my epic fantasy and urban fantasy...with little progress on either. But because the latter has a simpler plot, I'm choosing it for my NaNoWriMo project.
No More False Starts
I've seriously had plenty of these in the last year. but over the course of the past week, I've begun gearing up. After all, in order to make a novel-in-a-month...
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Fantasy Societies and Our Modern World View
Now that I can see again, and read without eye-strain headaches I'm plunging back into reading.
A month ago I had a post about my guy reading a series that I read about 13/14 years ago. And I've currently been reading Masques by Patricia Briggs. Which is awesome, because I have followed Briggs...
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Writing Life
I'm not sure where I picked up the phrase "writing life," but it fit so well, I thought it was self-explanitory :( And it just slid into my vocabulary.
I recently released a survey, in order to see what SWS could do better. I have been doing my best to devise the best way to create a writing...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Time, It's On my Side--Not!
If I were to personify life, it would be as a greedy old man trying to devise new ways to hinder and distract. I can hear evil chuckling right now.
T.V. shows, friends and family, responsibilities that stack one atop the other. Squeezing in time for myself to read and write can be a struggle....
Sunday, October 10, 2010
What Should Fantasy Characters Eat?
A friend asked after reading my Blogfeast entry, "How do you decide what your characters should eat?" This friend mentioned that she thought the food was particularly detailed, so how did I come up with it? At the risk of lapsing into an anthropological rant...
Food is important to all societies....
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
What a Weekend
Sorry all! I know I failed to come through with a few blogfests. I was super excited that I would have internet at the Nevada County Fairgrounds that I planned to blog from the festival (or, more precisely, the tent) instead, after the concerts closed on the last tap of shoe and stroke of the bow...well,...
