So, I still haven’t 100% nailed down what I’m doing for NaNoWriMo. What I do know is that I’m having fun with the world I’ve been building with my Flash Fiction. I’m definitely going to be using some of this material–not word-for-word because that’s cheating, but definitely for inspiration. I’m running out of time to figure out […]
I didn’t have a chance to write a Flash Fiction for 10/27. I had to work, and then I went to a friend’s house to play Ten Candles. It’s a fun horror story roleplay/improve game thingy where no one gets out alive. Anyway, by the time I got home for the night, I was exhausted, […]
I just finished this snippet just before midnight last night, but I got it done! So, I returned to that character, Leah, from the first FF. I am thinking about going further with some of the characters I’ve created through this exercise, perhaps bringing them all together somehow for the actual NaNo project? I’m not […]
So. Day 3 of this pre-NaNoWriMo warm-up. (Here’s Day 1 and Day 2). I want to clarify something before we get to what I wrote yesterday: It is not my intention to have all of these little vignettes just be the intros to pseudo-smut, okay? That’s just where my brain was at the time. I […]
So, yesterday, I shared my first pre-game flash fiction for NaNoWriMo 2018. As I mentioned, my novel this year is likely to be urban fantasy. Now, I read a lot of urban fantasy, but I don’t write much of it. So, this warm-up exercise is helping me experiment with some of the elements of the genre. What […]
It is October 24th. National Novel Writing Month is approaching very, very fast. I’m not ready, not really. I’m pretty sure I want to run with an urban fantasy vibe, but I’m not sure about my protagonist and plot just yet. I’m what’s called a “plantser;” I attack NaNo with a vague plan, but not […]
I love Valentine’s Day; I always have since I was a little kid. It’s right up there with Halloween for me. I have these warm, happy memories and associations that just give me that sappy-as-fuck fuzzy feeling every year. I remember making a valentine for my parents in my kindergarten art class, cutting heart shapes […]
That’s right, my lovely readers. I did it. I competed (against myself) in 2017’s National Novel Writing Month, and I won. It was intense, it was difficult, it was draining, it was cathartic, and it was so goddamn rewarding just to buckle down and get it done. When I first participated in NaNoWriMo, back in […]
Do you know about spoon theory? Where daily tasks each require a certain number of “spoons” to complete, but you have only so many of said spoons to allocate each day? For gamers, this concept translates fairly well into the principle of spell slots. Well, between the cringe/panic-inducing political climate, unceasing work drama, and various […]
So, things kind of suck right now. There’s a wee little puppet-man in the White House (emphasis on the “White” nowadays) like he has some kind of right to be there; he’s signing all kinds of papers no one has any business signing; “alternative facts” is now a thing; and there’s been some creepy, insidious censorship […]
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