Journal Entry: NaNoWriMo 2021 T-Minus 38 Days: The Decision The National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting creative writing. Its main program is an annual event in which crazy people attempt to write a 50,000-word manuscript during November. My math skills tell me that comes to 1,667 words per day. That…
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In Part 2, I promised to talk how to build the Uniform Resource Locator (URL), or the “link” you need to apply to each of the buttons.
This post (and the next) are geared toward the self-published authors out there and describe a way to push (or “gently nudge”) readers to share their work in an easy, accessible way.
Truthfully, I have no idea how a novel becomes viral if the author isn’t well known, but I’m going to list out a bunch of stuff that probably says I’m doing it wrong.
There is, in fact, a forest in central Arizona which burned down in 1990. I took a trip there a few weeks after the fire had been put out and snapped the picture that inspired this story. I didn’t actually write it until 2003, but it was that picture which was taped to my monitor the whole time.
In this issue: Giveaway, Other News, New Posts, Book News, Recent Work, and Recent Reads (a review).
Location, Location, Location. We’ve heard it before, how important it is to a story. The setting of a story can move about, but it is no less important (I believe) than the characters or the plot. After all, where would the characters act out the plot if not in a setting? “Everything in life is…
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Time travel has been written about so many times, there can’t be anything fresh in it. I decided to play with time travel once—and only once.
“Terminal Conversations” appeared in Travel a Time Historic, an anthology published in 2005.
Psychologically, routines are comfort food. They are there when other things are not. They are what we go to when we don’t know what else to do. Naturally, developing a routine in anything–be it writing or exercise or reading or needlepoint–is important to us as humans.
In this issue: New Posts, Book News, Past Week’s Work.
Transit Novels
Nonfiction
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