Stephanie A. Cain

Snarky, independent women, queer characters, and found families on irreverent but hopeful journeys through vividly-drawn magical worlds
 
Stephanie A. Cain

Gales of November

The storm last night was incredible. It knocked our power out just a few minutes after I made my NaNo post, and the power stayed out until about 7:30 this morning. In fact the winds were so strong that Mom insisted I stay downstairs until the worst was over. This …

NaNo Day 4

Total WC: 4119 Today’s: 1341 4,119 / 85,000 (4.8%) This scene was stubborn.  What happened was…unexpected.  Thanks to slightlyjillian for encouragement and keeping me awake. Oh, yeah, and I used the Dictionary.com word of the day in this scene. Go me.

NaNo Procrastination techniques

My number one procrastination technique for anything is cleaning up my desk.  I did that already.  Last night I went through iTunes and deleted every song name that had been disconnected from the file. Because OMG I HAD TO DO IT RIGHT THEN OR THE WORLD WOULD EXPLODE!!!  Tonight I …

NaNo Day 2

1,439 / 85,000 (1.7%) WC: 1439 The third day is where I started kicking NaNo’s ass last year.  Let’s hope that holds true for this year, too.  BUT – I now have plot cards written up through the second major plot twist — and that’s about 2/3 of the way …