Sitting in my car in the grocery store parking lot, flicking purple bangs from my eyes while I eat discounted Easter candy and listen to The Smiths on my car radio. I tap my combat boots with the drums and contemplate the esoteric nature of the holiday and its ancestral paganism as I open another … More Memento Mori
Last time we saw our intrepid hero, she was all swagger and ready to try out a new toy (which is still the best writing tool I’ve ever used, by the way) to write NaNoWriMo. Then, she disappeared. Again. What happened to the girl who wrote 13 novels in a year? Honestly, I wonder that … More On Not Writing and Beyond
Today is the first day of NaNoWriMo. Are you ready? Are you writing? Do you have an outline, an idea, a plan of any kind? No matter what you answer, mine is: Good. You’re already ready to start. I want to reassure you here and now that you have a story in you, you have … More Welcome to Your Punk Rock NaNoWriMo
Things are going to be a bit different around here. For one thing, it’s going to be a bit, well, more likely a ton more active. I realized lately something simple, profound, and freeing: I don’t care what anyone thinks about me anymore. And that’s a good thing. Looking back over my life, I can … More A New Attitude (But Really)
So… hi. Let’s just acknowledge that it’s been a lot longer than any of us hoped before I got back here with an update and stuff and move on. While I’ve maintained my relative radio silence, though, I’ve been up to things. New things, exciting things, challenging things. I now have a podcast. With my sister… Did … More Not Dead, Just Podcasting
Hello, my writing dears. I am writing this from my bed, where I have been entombed for the last 2 and a half days. I was put here either by some random and terrible stomach bug or by having angered one of the ancient gods – either of which would explain the misery I am now … More NaNoWriMo: 10,000 Words Left
In my last post, I talked about the 30,000 word slump – my name for it, anyway. It’s that point in the novel where it all seems to go to Hell in the proverbial hand basket. It may or may not happen exactly at 30,000, but every novel at some point stalls out, completely out … More NaNoWriMo: 5 Ways to Crush A Writing Stall
We’re in the final stretch of the NaNoWriMo marathon – day 23. Whether we started well or poorly, on time or late, with a well defined idea or not, we’ve been living in this reality of writing a novel in a month for 23 days now, and there is a mere 7 left. If we we’re … More NaNoWriMo: The Inevitable Writing Stall
I have a habit of separating my personal life from my blogging life, and recently I’ve wondered if I might benefit from a greater extent of transparency and intimacy with all of you lovely people, and so I want to, for a moment at least, get more personal. Firstly, I want to apologize for … More I’m Back From San Francisco
There’s something that happens to me sometimes, Something that I haven’t talked about with many other artists or writers, but I am sure I can’t be alone in experiencing. When writing fast, when creating off the cuff and uncontrolled as we do in deep journal-type writing practice, or in NaNoWriMo, we have to pull from … More When Writing Triggers
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