So far, there have been two topics that I’ve generally avoided on the blog: politics, and religion. And while I’ve skirted the “politics” rule a few times, now it’s time to skirt the “religion” one, because this is something I’ve wanted to write a post about for a while– not religion itself, but the relationship [...]
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Of Stories and Beliefs
Posted in Life, Writing, tagged Reality, Storytelling, Theme on December 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
How Chupacabras Saved My NaNoWriMo Novel
Posted in Writing, tagged NaNoWriMo, Novel, Storytelling on November 30, 2011 | 6 Comments »
For National Novel Writing Month, I’ve been writing a novel called Ghostrunners. And yesterday, I reached 50,000 words, which means I “won” NaNoWriMo. And as a bonus, I finished the story as well! Admittedly, it’s too short to be publishable– to have a shot at publishing it, I’d probably have to stretch it out to [...]
Mid-NaNoWriMo Update… and Story Acceptance!
Posted in Writing, tagged Acceptance, NaNoWriMo on November 20, 2011 | 7 Comments »
National Novel Writing Month has been a series of fitful stops and starts for me so far; right now I’m sitting at 28,000 words, and have about ten days left to write the rest. So I’m a few thousand words behind where I should be, but I’m hoping that I’ll be able to make up [...]
A Pre-NaNoWriMo Retrospective
Posted in Writing, tagged NaNoWriMo, Outlining, Storytelling on October 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Well, it’s almost that time of year again: November, aka National Novel Writing Month. For the third time, I’ll be endeavoring to write 50,000 words, hopefully in a manner that resembles a single coherent story. 2009 was successful; 2010 (which was actually a continuation of my 2009 story) wasn’t. However, that story (my epic fantasy, [...]
A Day at GeekGirlCon
Posted in Life, Writing, tagged Cons, Geek, GeekGirlCon on October 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
This weekend was the first annual GeekGirlCon, a new convention in Seattle dedicated specifically to the girls and women of geekdom. And even though I’m not a geek girl, I decided to spend a day there on Saturday. (After all, I go to Dragon*Con every year despite not being large, green, and scaly…) And sure [...]
What Happens in Reno, Gets Blogged
Posted in Travel, Writing, tagged Cons, Geek, Networking, WorldCon on August 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I went to the World Science Fiction Convention, aka WorldCon, in Reno, Nevada. Most cons are held each year at the same venue in the same city, but WorldCon moves to a new city each year. It’s a bit like the Olympics, in that groups from potential host cities put together bids, which [...]
Prepping for WorldCon
Posted in Travel, Writing, tagged Cons, Novel, WorldCon on August 16, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Tomorrow morning I catch a plane from Seattle to Reno for the World Science Fiction Convention– four days of soaking up wisdom from professional writers and editors, meeting lots of cool people, and in general having fun and reveling in pure geekery. I spent some time going through the program, marking off stuff I’d particularly [...]
Voted for the Hugos!
Posted in Writing, tagged Hugos, WorldCon on July 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier today I submitted my ballot for the Hugo Awards, which are annual awards for the best works of science fiction and fantasy, given out every year at the World Science Fiction Convention. I made a concerted effort to read as many of the nominated works as I could, and I’m glad I did, because [...]
Clarion West Write-a-thon: Complete!
Posted in Writing, tagged Clarion West, Novel, Write-a-thon on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Back in mid-June, I signed up for the Clarion West Write-a-thon, and set myself a goal: add at least 1,000 words a day to my novel. Now, 41 days later, I’ve added 41,653 words, for an average of 1,016 words a day. Success! There were a few individual days where I fell short of 1,000, [...]
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